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

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

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

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...

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

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

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A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...

A jetliner was nearly knocked out of the sky and sent plummeting to a deadly crash that would have killed all onboard by a ...

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

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

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 ...