For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has upheld former Dalhousie University medical student William Michael Sandeson’s February ...

A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and ...

Two stellar explosions that lit up the sky in 2021 have now been dissected in unprecedented detail, revealing tangled shells, colliding flows of gas, and structures that defy decades of textbook ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is "safe" and will reach Oslo by Thursday at the latest, but will not accept her Nobel Peace Prize in person, Nobel officials said.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

For years, scientists thought they understand what happens when stars explode. New earliest-ever mages of supernova events ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed close-up images ever taken of stars exploding, known as novae. These pictures ...