"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...
The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.
A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...
When a massive star explodes, it releases enormous amounts of energy, radiation, and particles into space. Scientists have ...
It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.
About 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, a white dwarf is hungrily gobbling up matter from a nearby companion star. The volatile relationship results in incredible fusion-driven ...
A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...
A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...