An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

A team of astronomers believe they’ve witnessed a star split in half before merging back together again, triggering an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of a neutron star sat at the heart of supernova wreckage blasting out gamma rays ...

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for ...

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"The best-case scenario for axions is Fermi catches a supernova. It's just that the chance of that is small." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...