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

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

Astronomers have finally been able to capture the shape of a star explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage, all thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory. A team ...

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...