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

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

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in 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.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

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

Scientists have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova — the death of a star — with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape. They used the European ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...

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 ...

This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...