“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

This old galaxy is having a blast.

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

Astronomers have obtained unprecedented images of two star explosions, revealing complex ejection processes and delayed ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the opportunity arises to capture a cosmic event almost in real-time, as if we were ...

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 ...