Betelgeuse is a nearby red supergiant living through the late stages of a massive star’s life. It will eventually end in a ...
For only the second time, astronomers are confident they have witnessed the outburst of radiation at the start of a supernova ...
A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...
These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026.
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual supernova.
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. Astronomers studying the night sky from the Southern Hemisphere have uncovered a supernova — the ...
Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen. The ...
In late 1572, long before the invention of the telescope, sky-watchers looking up at the night sky saw something impossible: ...
The supernova SN 2025wny is hopelessly far, lying approximately 10 billion light-years from Earth. Normally, this would make it impossible for astronomers to detect. But one team got lucky. While ...