On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line between a supernova and a kilonova. Yet that is where the evidence has led after an ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study ...