Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

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

A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is ...

A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an original star that caused a supernova for the first time. - NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Charles Kilpatrick / Aswin Suresh Astronomers say they've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combined image shows Pa 30, a unique stellar remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA/CXC) It's never too late ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...