Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

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 explosions are known, that ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted optical and near-infrared observations of a supernova designated SN ...

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The Space Space: Baby supernova explosion The Space Space Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing ...