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

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

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

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

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

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In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

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

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...