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

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

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.

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

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

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

A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a remarkably distant Type II supernova that ...

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

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.