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

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

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

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

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

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Calćada’s journey into astronomical art began when he spied Contact, a 1985 work of science-fiction by Carl Sagan, as a kid ...

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

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and ...

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

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

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 ...