Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

This revelation means scientists might have to rethink Type II supernova models, which would result in some of these cosmic ...

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For almost a century, we have known that the universe is expanding. For several decades, evidence has suggested that the ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...