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

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

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

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

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

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