Supernova International Ska Festival was this past weekend. Quite sadly, co-founder Tim Receveur passed away earlier this week. The festival issued a statement, but did not give immediate details. You ...

A distant star has captured astronomers' attention over the past decade, teasing them with indications that it will soon ...

Neutrinos play a key role in our current models of supernovae, and right now, those models don’t take into account one of neutrinos’ most striking features: their ability to change identity. We’ve ...

Researchers have assembled Unite, the largest internally consistent Type Ia supernova Hubble diagram yet, combining 2,884 ...

The supernova is unfolding before our eyes in a spiral galaxy and astrophotographers are busy documenting its changes.

The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion. Researchers ...

Astronomers have studied a star located several million light-years away. According to them, it was expected to soon explode ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts ...

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Scientists have discovered a new supernova—a star exploding after collapsing under its own gravity—thanks to a curve in spacetime. In comes in the wake of the discovery of SN 2023ixf, a supernova just ...