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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also long been a topic of intrigue for astronomers.

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...