Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, mysterious, and eerily quiet, despite their mass and influence. Stellar-mass ...

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

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 ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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 ...