Pa 30’s apparent streaks are chains of enormous gas knots, while its surviving star shows little sideways recoil from the ...

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place inside supernovae and X-ray bursts—two of the universe's most powerful ...

Learn how Johannes Kepler studied it and how astronomers later discovered it was a dying star exploding as a supernova.

Once charted as a 'guest star' in ancient China, dreaded as a harbinger of ill omens in medieval Europe, and preserved in the narratives and artworks of Indigenous cultures, these cosmic spectacles ...

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

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Left: Rubin image of SN 2026gzf host galaxy pre-explosion (May 2025–January 2026). Right: DECam image of supernova SN 2026gzf (April 3, 2026) In March, the Einstein Probe, a satellite made by the ...

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, ...

Learn about the remnant of a historic supernova observed around 850 years ago and the zombie star that has survived at its center.

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 ...

As a star nears the end of its life, it faces two very different fates: it can either explode as a supernova, leaving behind a neutron star, or it can ...