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

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

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

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

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

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A "guest star," briefly seen in 1181, was created by colliding dead stars, according to new simulations that may finally solve an 800-year-old cosmic mystery. When you purchase through links on our ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

The scenes track the furious expansion of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, the glowing remains of a star first spotted in 1604 by ...