An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...