The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion. Previous images of the explosion’s remnants had also captured a sphere of long, ...

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots ...

Astronomers captured the clearest view yet of Pa 30, the likely remains of a stellar explosion witnessed nearly 850 years ago ...

Learn about the remnant of a historic supernova observed around 850 years ago and the zombie star that has survived at its center.

Pa 30’s apparent streaks are chains of enormous gas knots, while its surviving star shows little sideways recoil from the ...

A spectacular supernova, SN 2026aaiv, has erupted in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, located 45 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation and visible from both hemispheres.

Stars once thought to provide evidence of hypernovae may instead owe their unusual chemistry to ordinary supernovae that ...

Betelgeuse is a nearby red supergiant living through the late stages of a massive star’s life. It will eventually end in a supernova, and models of such an event suggest a display bright enough to ...

UC Berkeley supernova and black hole expert Alex Filippenko will share the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize, which was announced today (May 19) by the Gruber Foundation. The prize, one of the most ...

Over the decades leading up to the explosion of the rare and luminous Type Ia supernova SN 2022erq, the mass-loss rate of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A catalog of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae strengthens hints that dark energy may change as the universe evolves. (CREDIT: Shutterstock ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters material across the universe. A new study led by a University of Hawaiʻi at ...