In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

A new study reveals an intriguing possibility: asupernova explosion might have sent a surge of cosmic rays toward Earth around 10 million years ago, with consequences etched in ocean rocks. The ...

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

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

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

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