About 1,600 years ago, a massive star died in a spectacular supernova explosion, leaving behind hot, dense stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within its remnants. Now, a research team ...

Astronomers captured the explosion of a massive star, SN2024ggi, using the Very Large Telescope. This artist's interpretation, based on the data, reveals a shocking discovery: the explosion was not ...

A massive star does not always go out in a brilliant supernova. Some instead collapse into black holes, potentially with little or no visible explosion. What determines which path a dying star takes ...

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion. Previous images of the explosion’s remnants had also captured a sphere of long, ...

Four stars with unusual chemical ingredients may not need exceptionally powerful explosions to explain their origins. New ...

Evidence for hypernovae, theorized to be the most powerful explosions in the universe, has been disputed in two papers by ...

In recent years, a handful of unusual stars have been cited as evidence for extraordinarily powerful stellar explosions called hypernovae. New research suggests these stars can be explained without ...

Observations from the Dark Energy Camera show the evolution of a supernova, including a bright blue source of light before the explosion (top box), the initial blast ...

Artist’s impression of a hot core—a warm cocoon of molecular gas surrounding a newborn star—discovered in a supernova remnant. Blue represents high-energy regions produced by the supernova explosion, ...

Over the decades leading up to the explosion of the rare and luminous Type Ia supernova SN 2022erq, the mass-loss rate of its ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...