Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.
The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...
Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...
A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...
Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.
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Scientists may have witnessed a star tearing itself apart
In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...
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 achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...
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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