An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

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

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

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 ...

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

Space scientists have just released spectacular images documenting the death of a star, a process that has been continuously ...

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 ...

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...