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

In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

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

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...