A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

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

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

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

Gamma rays are invisible and ultra-powerful forms of light. They are the most energetic source of radiation known in the ...

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

Boffins are scratching their heads over another mysterious signal which is believed to have originated from the edge of the ...

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

Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active galactic ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and international partners, has ...

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...