Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

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 ...

SN2021yfj is a new kind of supernova, challenging our understanding of stellar evolution. Its progenitor lost its outer shells well before the supernova happened and only consisted of its ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...