The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They’re bright enough to see across large ...

Supernovae produced much more of the stardust that builds our world than once thought, according to new research. The nuclear reactions inside stars create all the chemical elements from carbon to ...

An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2024abvb—a recently discovered supernova of a rare Type Icn. The new observational campaign yields ...