A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided further evidence that ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...

The Crab Nebula (M1) has one of the most famous origin stories around: The light from the supernova that created the nebula ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The “ultra-stripped” supernova led researchers to discover the two stars 11,000 light-years ...

What’s unique about this new supernova, called SN 2018zd, is that astronomers were able to compare Hubble and Spitzer space telescope images of its host galaxy before and after the explosion.

The supernova, the second-closest to Earth in a decade, is dubbed SN 2023ixf by the International Astronomical Union. It was discovered by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki four days ago.

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

The supernova, named SN 2023ixf, is located 21 million light-years away. It should remain visible with the aid of a telescope for at least a few months, astronomers said.

The stunning Supernova 1987A is roughly 168,000 light-years away from Earth and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.