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 ...

Scientists think a gigantic dying star tried to swallow a black hole. It didn't end well for the star, a new study says.

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they ...

Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...

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 ...

three stages of a simulated supernova explosion over a period of 50 milliseconds, starting about 400 milliseconds after the core begins to collapse.The surfaces show the material which is flowing ...

(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 ...