For a cosmic adrenaline rush, it’s hard to beat a supernova. It happens when a star detonates at the end of its life, blasting gases and other debris outward with unimaginable violence. The explosion ...

A new giant eye on the universe — perched high in the Andes — has just opened, and its first images are nothing short of breathtaking. With a 3.2‑billion‑pixel camera, this observatory captures ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...