Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

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

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

A strange double flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a long‑theorized kind of ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

Two Princeton researchers, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger, have become the first humans in recorded history to witness the explosion of a supernova in real time. Soderberg, who is a postdoctoral ...