A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

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

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

A supernova from the early universe looks unexpectedly familiar, challenging ideas about how the first massive stars lived ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...