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

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

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

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

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

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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

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

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

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

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.