The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

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

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

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 ...

Two Princeton researchers, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger, have become the first humans in recorded history to witness the explosion of a supernova in real time. Soderberg, who is a postdoctoral ...

A strange double flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a long‑theorized kind of ...