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, ...

A mysterious supernova just rewrote the rules of star death. Astronomers are still struggling to explain what happened.

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

That star at the center of our Solar System, that superhot ball of plasma that gives us heat and energy, and amazing ...

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

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

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

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Keplers Supernova, one of the most powerful stellar explosions ever witnessed by ...

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

For Earth to be born, our solar system needed certain isotopes which could only be formed by supernovae. But, shouldn't such ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...