Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, mysterious ...