The supernova, called SN 2023ixf, occurred as a red supergiant star in the galaxy Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel galaxy, expired. The team observed the supernova using the Hubble Space ...

This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program, could help scientists add more detail to the cosmic picture of stellar life and death they are ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has identified what's causing mysterious lights in the outskirts of ...

"I think all of us on this paper are stressed about there being a next supernova before we have the right instrumentation," Safdi said. "It would be a real shame if a supernova went off tomorrow ...

Astronomers still can’t entirely account for the explosive power of a supernova. “It was thought that this rebounding shock that’s produced when the neutron star forms could explode the star ...

An illustration shows a neutron star surrounded by green magnetic field lines in the fiery shell of supernova wreckage from its birth. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Out in the universe ...

"The high explosion energy of AT 2023adsv could indicate that the properties of supernova explosions might have been different in the early universe." Supernovas in the early universe just hit ...

"When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant," wrote an international team of scientists in a paper ...