"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, ...

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

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

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 ...