Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant proto-supernova. The cloud of dust hiding the star from our eyes may answer ...

When the two stars eventually smash into each other, the supernova explosion would be visible from Earth, even during daytime.

By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...

Astronomers have identified what appears to be a cosmic smoking gun for a historic supernova explosion, a find that may also help with the search for elusive dark energy in the universe. The new ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by Northwestern University has for the first time ...

SN2021yfj is a new kind of supernova, challenging our understanding of stellar evolution. Its progenitor lost its outer shells well before the supernova happened and only consisted of its ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

The cataclysmic explosion that spawned the supernova remnant simultaneously gave rise to a superdense pulsar, which was ...

An attempted armed robbery in West Hollywood went horribly wrong for a would-be thief who targeted a retired wrestler, ...