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

NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the first direct, high-resolution images of two stars in the immediate aftermath of their explosion, according to Georgia State University. And the breathtaking ...

Astronomers may have seen a space event that has never been clearly confirmed before. It is called a superkilonova, and it may have been detected in August 2025. The event happened very far from Earth ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...