"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.

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that ...

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 ...

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