Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.

A strange double flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a long‑theorized kind of stellar cataclysm, a superkilonova, might actually exist. The event appears to ...

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

Supernovae represent the dramatic endpoints of stellar evolution, and recent studies have expanded our understanding of the complex interplay between explosion mechanisms and the nature of progenitor ...

A new JCAP paper promises to reveal supernovae only hours after they explode Supernovae are enormous explosions that mark the final stages of a star’s life. They fall into two broad categories, ...

Massive stars, those with initial masses exceeding eight times that of the Sun, undergo complex evolutionary processes that ultimately culminate in spectacular supernova explosions. During their ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Only a few hours after its birth, astronomers successfully glimpsed ...