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

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

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 ...

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

NASA and ESA release a Hubble image of NGC 7722 showing dust lanes, rings, and supernova follow-up observations in a lenticular galaxy.

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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