A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...
A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...
Astronomers have captured one of the rarest events in the universe—the very first moments of a massive star exploding. The ...
A rare stellar explosion has allowed astronomers to follow the death of a massive star from start to finish, yielding one of the most complete datasets ever collected for such an event. The explosion ...
Scientists may have witnessed a massive, dying star split in two and then crash back together, triggering a never-before-seen double explosion. The explosion sent ripples through space-time and forged ...
Observing a dip in the light curve of the Blaze Star (T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB) in 2023, astronomer Jean Schneider from the Paris Observatory had predicted that the recurrent nova would explode ...
Supernova shock breakout from SN 2026gzf -- only the second confirmed in 20+ years -- has been traced to a decade of violent ...