UC Santa Cruz professor shares one of cosmology's highest honors with Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley and Ken Nomoto at the ...

LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...

For nearly a decade, scientists have been trying to understand a set of strange blue flashes coming from deep space. These ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth is travelling through the remnants of an ancient supernova. Analysis of Antarctic ice samples revealed traces of iron-60, a radioactive element not found on Earth ...

The 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize honors Alexei V. Filippenko, Ken'ichi Nomoto, and Stanford Woosley for their decades-long ...

A study published May 13 in Physical Review Letters has confirmed that radioactive iron forged inside an exploding star has ...

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Despite being so elusive, neutrinos are produced in abundance in some of the most violent events in the universe. One of ...

Earth is flying through the radioactive ashes of an ancient exploded star, and Antarctic ice preserved the evidence.

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Stardust from ancient supernova explosions has been discovered in Antarctic ice, offering clues about the Solar System’s path ...