Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." ...

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

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