Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

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Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...

As Trump states Ukraine is losing the war with Russia, officials say the battlefield situation hasn’t changed significantly After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the same 2-word ...

To travel beyond nearby stars humanity would need to survive journeys lasting centuries or longer. This explores how long term life in space could be made possible through generation ships life ...