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

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

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

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

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