There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling ...

Astronomers studying the aftermath of a supernova explosion have located the original star, a celestial body that should have ...

It's the astronomical equivalent of a horror film adversary: a star that just wouldn't stay dead. When most stars go supernova, they die in a single blast, but astronomers have found a star that ...

A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding supergiant star—the result of its core collapsing under its own gravity ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...