Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...