Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

When a massive star goes supernova, its explosion must be a perfectly spherical fireball at least, that’s been the theoretical assumption for the last several decades. However, recent observations ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

A stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova explosion may have caused a packed passenger jet to suddenly lose ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...