When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark the birth ...

Astronomers studying the site of a supernova seen 843 years ago have captured an image of the strange filaments left behind by the stellar explosion.

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

"For the first time, we see the creation of atoms; we can measure the temperature of the matter and see the microphysics in ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event, where a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has transformed directly into a black hole, without the usual supernova explosion. The phenomenon ...

A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas that jut out for several light-years in all directions.

"Very little is known about what causes the formation of magnetars," researcher Kritti Sharma said. "Our work helps to answer this question." ...

Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard, told ABC7 in a live interview that this "zombie star" explodes in a blaze of light every 80 years or so, due to it ...