Astronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...