Discover the explosive end of a star's life—supernovas. Learn what causes these cosmic events and their impact with ...

To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you'll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently ...

A long-standing enigma surrounding the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula, may have been unraveled.

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are ...

A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins ...

The search for visual evidence of the supernova, named SN 1181, went on for centuries before amateur astronomer Dana Patchick first discovered its remains in 2013. Patchick spotted a nebula near ...

The supernova that caused the nebula was recorded by Japanese and Chinese astronomers in the 12th century. Now, we know exactly what the aftermath looks like.

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula.

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a "guest star" in the Cassiopeia constellation ...