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

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

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

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It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

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

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 ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...