A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided further evidence that ...

The Crab Nebula (M1) has one of the most famous origin stories around: The light from the supernova that created the nebula ...

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It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The “ultra-stripped” supernova led researchers to discover the two stars 11,000 light-years ...

The supernova, the second-closest to Earth in a decade, is dubbed SN 2023ixf by the International Astronomical Union. It was discovered by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki four days ago.

What’s unique about this new supernova, called SN 2018zd, is that astronomers were able to compare Hubble and Spitzer space telescope images of its host galaxy before and after the explosion.

The stunning Supernova 1987A is roughly 168,000 light-years away from Earth and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The supernova, named SN 2023ixf, is located 21 million light-years away. It should remain visible with the aid of a telescope for at least a few months, astronomers said.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's photo of the Crab Nebula, the six-light-year-wide expanding remnant ...More of a star's supernova explosion.. NASA via Getty Images. For the last 33,000 years Earth ...

If Betelgeuse goes supernova during the northern hemisphere’s winter months (the southern hemispheres summer months), then great—we’ll all see it shine super-brightly at night.