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

The mysterious 10-second flash of energy, first detected in March, has been identified thanks to NASA's ever-impressive James ...

NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

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.

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

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

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...

A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars, according to new simulations that may finally solve an 800-year-old cosmic mystery. When you purchase through links on our ...

The 1987 supernova (SN 1987A) occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), not the Milky Way. The LMC is a smaller satellite of the Milky Way, but astronomers still consider it to be outside our ...