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

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

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

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

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly ...

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