Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, ... The evolution of the supernova explosion is still being studied to this day, and what exactly happened from 2009 to 2012 remains a mystery.

The supernova, designated SN 2023ixf, is one of the largest and brightest seen for a decade. Update for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on May 26: The livestream of supernova 2023ixf has been rescheduled to ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Stars of its type tend to live fast and die relatively young; whereas our star is middle-aged at about 5 billion years, Betelgeuse is 10 million years old and could go out in a supernova explosion ...

Stars like Betelgeuse can live in excess of 10 million years — a very brief period to astronomers but a very long time to anyone else. ... A supernova explosion would also create radioactive iron.

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear ...