A distant supernova, SN 2025mkn, became visible from nine billion light years away after a galaxy’s gravity bent and brightened its light, helping scientists study it in detail.

When a star in the nearby galaxy NGC 2146 exploded in late 2024, it barely registered by supernova standards. The blast, ...

Scientists discover a star, HD 254577, that survived a supernova and is now racing through space, revealing how the explosion ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by ...

A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers recorded a mysterious li.

A supernova – the explosive death of a star – is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

The study, published in Nature, uses gravitational wave observations to probe how the most massive stars end their lives, ...