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 ...

A strange double flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a long‑theorized kind of stellar cataclysm, a superkilonova, might actually exist. The event appears to ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...