A massive star does not always go out in a brilliant supernova. Some instead collapse into black holes, potentially with little or no visible explosion. What determines which path a dying star takes ...

Astronomers have uncovered an unexpectedly ordered structure inside Pa 30, the only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way, revealing chains of nearly uniform gas knots surrounding a ...

Evidence for hypernovae, theorized to be the most powerful explosions in the universe, has been disputed in two papers by ...

Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star marking the shoulder of the constellation Orion, is one of the closest stars to Earth that could plausibly explode as a supernova within a human lifetime, at least ...

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

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

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star's detonation sent its ...

Artist’s impression of a hot core—a warm cocoon of molecular gas surrounding a newborn star—discovered in a supernova remnant. Blue represents high-energy regions produced by the supernova explosion, ...

As a star nears the end of its life, it faces two very different fates: it can either explode as a supernova, leaving behind a neutron star, or it can ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA astronuat Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt conducts geological field research on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in December ...

Newswise — The aftermath of a stellar explosion should be a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy M83, the last thing they ...