"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." ...

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

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 ...

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

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

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

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

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the birth of the universe ...