"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The recent deaths of two white dwarf stars are challenging our ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

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

What would it take for humans to survive hundreds of years while traveling between the stars? From cryosleep to megaships and biological upgrades, we explore the real science behind ultra-long-term ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...