What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

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 ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the first direct, high-resolution images of two stars in the immediate aftermath of their explosion, according to Georgia State University. And the breathtaking ...

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...