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 ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

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

Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier back to a time when the universe was still in its infancy, ...

Supernova is about to happen as the two stars colliding each other will create a bright light visible from the Earth.

For years, scientists thought they understand what happens when stars explode. New earliest-ever mages of supernova events ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...