An annotated picture shows the SN 2023ixf supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy. The supernova is the closest seen in five years.International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very large ...

Webb’s sensitive infrared observations helped in detecting and distinguishing the fading light of the explosion from its ...

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 ...

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

It’s a terrifying thought: an exploding star near Earth, blasting our planet with cosmic rays which killed off species on the surface. But it might have happened in our planet’s distant past, ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

The supernova explosion that triggered the birth of the solar system, by exciting a cloud of gas and dust, has been recreated in a lab using a laser and foam ball. Molecular clouds, like the one that ...

ONE of the most famous stars in the sky is dying – and astronomers think it could explode sooner than initially predicted. Researchers from Tohoku University and the University of Geneva conducted a ...

After decades of trying, astronomers have found the origin of a Type Ia supernova explosion using radio emissions, thanks to the e-MERLIN telescope network based at Jodrell Bank, The University of ...

A new understanding of the last days of supergiant stars may have given scientists the clues they need to predict when those stars will go supernova, collapsing in some of the largest explosions known ...