"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.

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

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 ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the opportunity arises to capture a cosmic event almost in real-time, as if we were ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...