A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

The next time you use your phone, you should raise your eyes to the skies and say thanks to ... a dying star. More specifically, you should thank the explosions that happen on a class of celestial ...

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

In an unprecedented astronomical event, scientists are left astounded by the mysterious disappearance of a star without the expected explosive finale. Typically, stars end their life cycle in a ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a major cosmological mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...