One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

Astronomers say one of the universe’s largest stars has dramatically changed since 2014, possibly entering a rare final phase that could end in a spectacular supernova explosion.

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

For the very first time, astronomers have captured a radio signal emitted by a very specific type of stellar explosion. This unprecedented observation offers us a glimpse into the final moments of ...

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

This artist's animation shows a hypothe sized event known as a superkilonova . Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...