Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star marking Orion’s left shoulder, will one day explode as a supernova bright enough to see ...

The Jellyfish Nebula, one of the best-studied supernova remnants in our galaxy, may have been hiding a sibling this whole ...

An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN ...

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star collapsed, triggering a supernova explosion so bright it could be seen across the universe. When the light reached Earth, telescopes around ...

A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through space at thousands of kilometers per second.

The star that formed the Jellyfish nebula may have had a partner star that exploded 100,000 years earlier, according to ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice ...