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

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

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

The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also long been a topic of intrigue for astronomers.

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.