Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

A dramatic double supernova explosion has been captured for the first time by a team of scientists, including a ­Trinity ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

A new paper suggests that a star some 65 light-years from Earth may have exploded into a supernova, ... Additional research could prove whether or not this supernova theory holds water. Today, ...

Betelgeuse has brightened and dimmed over the years, convincing some astronomers that it's close to exploding. New research offers an alternate theory.

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a “guest star” in the Cassiopeia constellation.