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

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

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.

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

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

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

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

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...