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

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...

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

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.

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

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

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

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

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

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 ...