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

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed “superkilonova.” ...

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

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