One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, at least by cosmic reckoning. Betelgeuse, the ruddy ...

Betelgeuse is a nearby red supergiant living through the late stages of a massive star’s life. It will eventually end in a supernova, and models of such an event suggest a display bright enough to ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...

Astronomers watch star explode like never before – and find an entirely new way for them to die - Observations from across ...

Betelgeuse has always been something of a mystery. Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky, marking the right ...

Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...

The soil covering the moon may contain a remarkable record of ancient stars that exploded millions of years ago. Scientists ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

A collapsing star drives a shock wave out through its own body. The wave reaches the surface and breaks through, dumping ...

Physicists at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago have used the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to model the extreme physics of a supernova explosion . Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your ...

Astronomers are puzzling over an oddball gamma ray burst that may have accompanied a supernova that is still in the process of brightening. NASA’s Swift satellite detected a burst of high-energy gamma ...

These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026. Images taken on 25 March and 3 April 2026 show the supern ...