An international team was lucky enough to see the first moments of a star dying in unprecedented detail. It seems almost fitting that in the final days before the retirement of one of the greatest ...

Astronomers have identified the most massive black hole that formed from an exploding star to be discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission, involving UCL researchers ...

What's the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas about what ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 ...

The brightest cosmic object of its kind ever detected may have helped astronomers solve the mystery of powerful, bright blue cosmic explosions. At the heart of the discovery is a signal from a ...