The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.
"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." ...
T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...
For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...
Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given them an unprecedented look into the final years of a massive star before ...
The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...
Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...
When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...