Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are ...

Astronomers may have seen a space event that has never been clearly confirmed before. It is called a superkilonova, and it ...

The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can reveal about stars that go boom. But while catching them immediately after they detonate has proven largely elusive, ...

Astronomers seeking to observe a star just before it explodes have come tantalizingly close to achieving their goal, a new study reports. For the last three years, the researchers have been scanning ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Astronomers report a strange cosmic blast that looked like a kilonova, then behaved like a supernova, hinting at a possible first “superkilonova” and leaving scientists debating how stars truly die.

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they knew. In 2021, a star about 2.2 billion light-years away ended its life in ...

Images of Nova Herculis 2021 (V1674 Her) taken with the CHARA Array, two and three days after the eruption began. The images show two outflows expanding in nearly perpendicular directions, forming an ...

ATLANTA — Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions — known as novae — within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these ...