The opportunity to watch a supernova explosion in real-time has so far eluded astronomers. The closest observation so far has been SN 2013fs, ...

A recent interview with one of Supernova's stars could point to the Monsterverse following the path of the most acclaimed ...

Supernovae, these gigantic stellar explosions, release a phenomenal amount of energy. This energy travels through space, capable of reaching planets located thousands of light-years away.

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot have gotten the most complete look at a supernova ever, watching and tracking a star’s explosion in real time, as noted in a new ...

Every star ages, but astronomers rarely get to watch it happen in real time. Now, they've gotten a front-row seat to the aging of an unusually chaotic star — and found that it's headed toward a ...

A composite image taken with the Liverpool Telescope showing the supernova (bright blue). Image: E. Zimmerman et al., Weizmann Institute of Science/Liverpool Telescope The supernova, called SN ...

A star's death is explosive, mystifying and out of this world – and now, scientists have figured out a way to watch it happen in real-time. Astronomers developed an "early-warning system" to ...

A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time online and for free. The event will kick off at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Thursday, May 25.

Some scientists think they’ve found the signature of a supernova buried in the afterglow of the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. Others aren’t so sure.

This is the real kill-zone for a supernova. But they can still be dangerous from further out. For example, the pleistoscene supernova is thought to have been 50 to 100 light years away—just ...

Supernova SN 2023ixf was discovered in the Pinwheel galaxy, or M101, on 19 May by a Japanese amateur astronomer called Koichi Itagaki. It is the closest supernova to Earth since SN 2014J in 2014 ...