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

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

Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given ...

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

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

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

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, ...

T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...