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

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

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, ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

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

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

A massive star was supposed to vanish without a trace, instead, it erupted in a spectacular explosion. The light from this ...

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

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