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

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

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

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

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

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

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

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

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if a nearby supernova exploded close to Earth, revealing radiation exposure, atmospheric disruption, and mass extinctions.