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

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

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

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

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

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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