A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | ...

As Supernova returns for a third year, Ivar Zeile, the director of the downtown digital animation, is seriously jazzed. After spending two years of running a major festival with unconventional ...

Supernova 2011dh photographed in a spiral arm of the Whirlpool Galaxy on July 4, 2011 from Port Wing, Wis. The other stars you see in the photo are foreground stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Credit ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A ...

"This event quite literally looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before." Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

In May, a star in the Pinwheel galaxy exploded in just the right place at nearly the right time for astronomers to unravel details of its death. It was the closest supernova to go off in the last five ...