An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

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

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

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

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

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

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

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

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively recent past. Earlier this year, a team of scientists in Germany discovered a ...