The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

A stronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...