To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

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

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

Betelgeuse’s future supernova won’t harm Earth, but close cosmic explosions could strip our ozone, risking life. Gamma-ray ...

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

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows throughout these two galaxies, IC 2163 and NGC 2207. These eyes are ...

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 ...

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) researchers used data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey.

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...