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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A star in the Andromeda Galaxy has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind a puzzling red light source that is baffling astronomers.

A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is ...

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 ...

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

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

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