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

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

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 ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

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 ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely remnants of this event were rediscovered and tentatively linked to the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...