A supernova, pinpointed by amateur astronomers, could reveal unexpected new steps in the deaths of massive stars.

The remains of a star that exploded 36 years ago have fallen under the gaze of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — and this observatory's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured the expanding ...

A massive star that exploded in the Pinwheel Galaxy in May appears to have unexpectedly lost approximately one sun's worth of ejected mass during the final years of its life before going supernova, ...

Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds—and ...

New Type Ia supernova discovered using gravitational lensing Jul 24, 2017 Study investigates a rare ... The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Phys.org ...

A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior to its explosion is challenging the standard theory of stellar evolution. The new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A ...

In November of 1572, Tycho Brahe noticed a new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was the first supernova to be observed in detail by Western astronomers and became known as Tycho’s Supernova.

Aug. 31 (UPI) --NASA has released a new image of a supernova that is located 168,000 light years away from Earth using the James Webb Space Telescope and has discovered previously undetected ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected radio waves from a Type Ia supernova, uncovering new clues about white dwarf explosions and their helium-rich environments. For the first time, ...

Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds – and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught the action.