The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

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

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

A scintillating spiral galaxy that played host to two supernova explosions in the past 30 years takes center stage in a new image captured by a telescope in Chile's high desert. The galaxy NGC 1187 is ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an original star that caused a supernova for the first time. - NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Charles Kilpatrick / Aswin Suresh Astronomers say they've ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combined image shows Pa 30, a unique stellar remnant in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA/CXC) It's never too late ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

Astronomers say they've captured the clearest look yet of a star on the brink of supernova. An international team used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to backtrack and find the original star that ...