"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 ...

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