"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Astronomers have identified what appears to be a cosmic smoking gun for a historic supernova explosion, a find that may also help with the search for elusive dark energy in the universe. The new ...

The strikingly bright shock waves from a massive star explosion first observed in 1987 can still be seen today, three decades later. This brilliant star explosion, called Supernova 1987A, occurred ...

(USA TODAY) -- The first moments of a supernova — the spectacular explosion that marks the death of massive stars — have been spotted for the first time, astronomers announced Monday. The star, ...