One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

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 ...

The light from the explosion did not reach Earth till June 29, 2025, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

The star, WOH G64, lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. It is enormous, roughly ...

Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Maybe music artist Moby was right, and “we are all made of stars.” New research suggests the calcium in our teeth and bones came from star explosions. Researchers from Northwestern University looked ...

Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect.

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...