John Asher Johnson and Erin Marie Johnson bought a three-bedroom, one-bath home at 40 W. Glenarm St. in Pasadena from Jeffrey Theodore Bozem and Teresa Marie Bozem for $780,000 on Oct. 15. The 2,291-square-foot house was built in 1901 in the South...

A supernova — an exploding star — is among the brightest single objects in the known Universe. A supernova can release as much energy in a single second as the Sun will in a thousand years. Most people think of supernovae as massive stars exploding at...

Ann Martin is a doctoral candidate in Cornell University's department of astronomy. Her research focuses on the hydrogen content of galaxies in the nearby universe.The world will NOT end on Dec. 21, 2012. The Mayan calendar was designed to be cyclical,...

Astronomers examining data from a supernova first observed in 2002 have determined that it represents a new class of rapidly exploding star.  The explosion may have resulted from a binary star system where helium flowed from one white dwarf star to...

The 12.4 mile-wide object has been cloaked in mystery since it was identified as a powerful X-ray source in 1999.  Astronomers now know the source is a neutron star 11,000 light years from Earth at the centre of the supernova Cassiopeia A. It is...