"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is ...