For the first time, astronomers have observed the violent death of a star. The observations would not have been possible even a day before or later.

Science popularizer Angel Molina, an expert in astronomy and astrophotography, explained on his TikTok channel what a ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.

A stellar snuff film. The post Astronomers Witness the Moment a Fatal Shockwave Bursts Through the Surface of a Star appeared ...

A stronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...