The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an unusual environment, a supernova remnant tangled with dense material, or ...

The explosion of a star was detected using an AI tool designed to instantly identify unusual cosmic phenomena.

Collisions between the stellar explosion and shells of material from earlier interactions located above and below the disk, ...

Not all supernovae go quietly into the cosmic night some fight to the very end. That is how Alexander Gagliano, the lead ...

A supernova likely triggered by the destructive pull of a nearby black hole has been observed by astronomers in a spectacular ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have ...

After reviewing a massive stellar explosion, researchers believe they spotted a never-before-seen type of supernova that ...

An artist's illustration depicts a massive star being stretched by the gravitational pull of a nearby black hole, just before ...

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as ...

The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial ...

This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.