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." ...

Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars, is set to go supernova soon. This event will make it shine as brightly as the full ...

In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...

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Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for ...

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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"The best-case scenario for axions is Fermi catches a supernova. It's just that the chance of that is small." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...