The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

When a massive star dies, astronomers expect a familiar chemical script: hydrogen and helium on the outside, heavier elements ...

An explosive event in the sky might soon captivate stargazers, as a research team led by the University of Turku predicts ...

XRISM’s high-precision X-ray data revealed unusually strong signatures of chlorine and potassium inside the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. These levels are far higher than theoretical models ...

A faint, ancient flash of light detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken the record for the most distant ...

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision." An investigation of a cosmic explosion that marked the violent death of a massive star has called into ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...