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

A mysterious supernova just rewrote the rules of star death. Astronomers are still struggling to explain what happened.

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

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

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

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

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

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

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

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

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