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

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

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

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 ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

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

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada. (This artist’s impression shows a star going ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...