The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...

A first-of-its-kind, animated map has revealed fresh secrets about a mysterious, flowering "zombie star" lurking in the ...

Redditors are shocked after seeing how the Hubble Space Telescope captured 'light echoes' after a star went supernova ...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated the galaxy NGC 7793, searching ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

When a massive star explodes in a brilliant flash called a supernova, it sends out a wave of high-energy particles into space ...

A supernova’s blast can either heat and scatter gas clouds, halting star formation, or compress them to spark new stars, while enriching the space with heavy elements.

Research links supernovae to Earth’s climate shifts, revealing potential atmospheric impacts and adding a cosmic layer to ...

Behind this galaxy’s calm facade lies the fingerprint of a long-dead giant star. A violent supernova once rocked its structure, and scientists are using Hubble to trace how that one death influenced ...

The Vela supernova remnant, the remains of a supernova explosion 800 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Vela, as seen from the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.