In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...
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." ...
What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...
The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...
The mysterious 10-second flash of energy, first detected in March, has been identified thanks to NASA's ever-impressive James ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...
T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...
Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...