"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, ...

NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a massive stellar explosion. Captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory over ...

On January 26, 1978, the International Ultraviolet Explorer launched into orbit on a mission to study ultraviolet light ...

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

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light. Reading time 2 minutes A mind-blowing video shows the remnant of an ancient ...

The Space Space: Baby supernova explosion The Space Space Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing ...

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

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. When you purchase ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...