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

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

This powerful side-by-side comparison shows just how bright a star explosion is. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently, the ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova. Reading time 3 minutes When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Carl Sagan once said we are all made of ...

Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...