Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if a nearby supernova exploded close to Earth, revealing radiation ...