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

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

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

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

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

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

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 T Coronae Borealis is expected ...

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

This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...