Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive ...

Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova explosion breaks out through the surface of a doomed star ...

Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.

Scientists have observed the early stages of a star's violent death – a supernova – for the first time. The shape of these ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

Scientists, using the Very Large Telescope, have captured the earliest stages of a supernova explosion, revealing a star 15 times the mass of our sun exploding in an olive-like shape. The study ...

This revelation means scientists might have to rethink Type II supernova models, which would result in some of these cosmic ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...