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

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

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

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