Discover the explosive end of a star's life—supernovas. Learn what causes these cosmic events and their impact with ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

NGC 1672, a stunning barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado, puts on a dazzling ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...

In 2009, astronomers found another confirmed failed supernova, a supergiant red star in NGC 6946, the "Fireworks Galaxy," called N6946-BH1. A survey monitoring 27 nearby galaxies indicates that 20%-30 ...

NGC 7714: A spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy has witnessed some violent and dramatic events in ...