NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos.

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

The star, WOH G64, lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. It is enormous, roughly 1,540 times ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel ...

Far beyond the Milky Way, in a nearby satellite galaxy, a giant star has been shifting in a way astronomers did not expect.

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...