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

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

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

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

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

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

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that ...

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

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, ...

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