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

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

An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

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

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

Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.

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

Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

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 ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...