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

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

Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...

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

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 ...

A University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa astronomer helped pull off a cosmic first: mapping the three‑dimensional shape of a star’s ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...