When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

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It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.