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

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

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

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

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

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

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that new Webb images of what ...

“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams ...

Less than half the predicted number of supernova remnants in our galaxy have been found – where are all the others? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.