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

A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combined image shows Pa 30, a unique stellar remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA/CXC) It's never too late ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in ...

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

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

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

Astronomers say they've captured the clearest look yet of a star on the brink of supernova. An international team used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to backtrack and find the original star that ...