A fleet of telescopes around the world just captured the first shocking moments of a supernova explosion in the most detailed-ever observations of their kind. The explosive event was first spotted by ...

Stars once thought to provide evidence of hypernovae may instead owe their unusual chemistry to ordinary supernovae that ...

Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in ...

Observations from the Dark Energy Camera show the evolution of a supernova, including a bright blue source of light before the explosion (top box), the initial blast ...

Exploding oldies Massive stars exploding in a core-collapse supernova explosion can be used as tracers for actively forming stars and the physical consequences their explosive deaths exert on the ...

Evidence for hypernovae, theorised to be the most powerful explosions in the Universe, has been disputed in two papers by UCL ...