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

NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...

NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...

NASA has released a decades-long video showing Kepler’s supernova remnant evolving in X-rays, using Chandra Observatory data ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1987, light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth. Named Supernova 1987A, it was the ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...