If a massive star near Earth exploded into a supernova, the result wouldn’t just be beautiful — it would be catastrophic.

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

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

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

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 ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA, ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and most detailed low-frequency radio image ever made of the Milky Way, ...

Let us sympathize, for a moment, with neutrino researchers. These tireless folks devote their energies toward understanding subatomic particles that, it would appear, want nothing to do with them.

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

The absence of observed supernovae in the Milky Way for 400 years refers to visual observations within the galaxy itself, excluding events in other galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).