A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova ...

The purported "supernova" explosion appears to be superimposed onto the background sky, likely using graphics animation tools such as After Effects or TikTok filters. Read more.

A supernova discovered in May could be a beacon for alien communication. Scientists are studying nearly 100 stars within 300 light-years of the stellar explosion, looking for inhabited planets.

Astronomers developed an "early-warning system" to alert scientists when a star is on the verge of dying in a supernova explosion. Until now, it's been difficult for scientists to observe the ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine brighter than anything currently visible in the night sky. But ...

The supernova SN2023ixf was discovered just 21 million light years away—essentially ... The explosion of SN2023ixf is literally shedding light on the process that brought human beings into ...

The stunning Supernova 1987A is roughly 168,000 light-years away from Earth and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A new photo from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captures the Vela supernova remnant, the result of a stellar explosion that happened 11,000 years ago.