Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

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

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

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...

An artist's impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. (Olena Shmahalo/Callingham et al. via SWNS) By Stephen Beech The first confirmed sighting of a giant explosion ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

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 ...

The first confirmed sighting of a giant explosion on a nearby star has been spotted by astronomers. They observed an explosive burst of material thrown out into space by another star – a huge burst ...