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 ...

In recent years, a handful of unusual stars have been cited as evidence for extraordinarily powerful stellar explosions called hypernovae. New research suggests these stars can be explained without ...

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 ...