Exploding supernovas and the resulting "winds" were vital in the formation of today's galaxies, says an international team of astronomers. Scientists from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Switzerland ...

You’d think that supernovae – the death throes of massive stars and among the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe – would be hard to miss. Yet the number of these blasts observed in ...

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest-ever close-up images of two exploding stars, events known as novae, within days of their eruption. These detailed images show that such explosions are far more ...

Earth has faced multiple mass extinctions in its long history, with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs being the most famous. But what if some of these catastrophic events were caused by ...

What can stars exploding near black boles teach astronomers about the formation and expansion of both celestial objects? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a ...