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

In March 2025, a fleeting yet monumental cosmic event captured the attention of astronomers worldwide. For just ten seconds, a gamma-ray burst, known as GRB 250314A, illuminated our detectors, ...

A mysterious supernova just rewrote the rules of star death. Astronomers are still struggling to explain what happened.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a 'reborn' supermassive black hole awakened after 100 million years of silence.

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

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

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active galactic ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and international partners, has ...

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