Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

A sparkling new supernova has appeared in the night sky, and a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii was perfectly poised to capture the aftermath of the cosmic burst. The supernova was first spotted ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they knew. In 2021, a star about 2.

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

a spiral galaxy with a bright point of light at the end of one of its arms A new supernova recently discovered in the Pinwheel Galaxy continues to put on a show for astronomers. The supernova, called ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what ...

On Sept. 20, 2016, Victor Buso was testing a new camera in his rooftop observatory. Buso, an amateur astronomer from Rosario, Argentina, shot a series of images of spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is ...

(CNN) — A sparkling new supernova has appeared in the night sky, and a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii was perfectly poised to capture the aftermath of the cosmic burst. (CNN) — A sparkling new ...