A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and even shine in daytime skies. Astronomers are watching for a sudden eruption ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For decades, astronomers and stargazers have been waiting ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest images of a section of night sky to an image of the same section of space ...

‘I literally screamed with joy when I saw that I was going to be a co-author of the research paper.’ By Andrew Paul Published Jul 1, 2025 11:00 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...