A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...

A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...

The reddish star that marks the shoulder of the constellation Orion is dying, and when it goes, the whole world may notice.

Astronomers watch star explode like never before – and find an entirely new way for them to die - Observations from across ...

A rare X-ray flash captured the first light from SN 2026gzf, an energetic supernova that produced no detected gamma-ray burst. The dying star had shed its hydrogen and helium, building shells of ...

These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026.

Telescopes watched this outburst from its earliest hours, something only definitively achieved once before. When they ...

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

Learn more about what the first few moments of a supernova look like and the international collaboration that helped with ...

In March 2026, the Einstein Probe detected a brief flash of soft X-rays emitted from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. The flash, dubbed EP260321a, immediately triggered a worldwide ...

The most detailed computer simulation yet of the turbulent motion inside an exploding star has been carried out by the world’s foremost supercomputer. The results help explain how nuclear reactions in ...

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 ...