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New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

When a star in the nearby galaxy NGC 2146 exploded in late 2024, it barely registered by supernova standards. The blast, ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that exploded millions of years ago. The star, which was in a nearby galaxy, exploded ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant ...

When Japan’s Hitomi satellite trained its X-ray spectrometer on the Perseus Cluster in early 2016, it had just weeks to live.

The study, published in Nature, uses gravitational wave observations to probe how the most massive stars end their lives, strengthening the case for a long-predicted "forbidden gap" in black-hole ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...