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

A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

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

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

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in ...

The phenomenon of fast radio bursts is one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics. Until now it has been believed that their source is magnetars. The latest discovery, in which dr Marcin ...