NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds a red supergiant star before it exploded, offering new clues to why their supernovas ...

This documentary explores the terrifying force of the hypernova, an explosion far greater than any supernova, capable of tearing apart galaxies and sending shockwaves across the cosmos.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have achieved a remarkable first: capturing a detailed view of a red supergiant star just before it exploded as a supernova. The star, located ...

A study led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has captured the explosive interaction between a black hole and a nearby massive star (blue), as depicted in this artist's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can ...

"Even the quietest and seemingly empty regions of the galaxy can harbor extreme processes." Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Carl Sagan once said we are all made of ...