Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova explosion breaks out through the surface of a doomed star for the first time, revealing what appears to be a surprisingly symmetrical ...

The shockwave from the blast was felt by residents in the nearby areas. Many of them rushed outside their houses in fear.

Supernovas, the catastrophic explosions that follow the collapse of a star, are essential to our understanding of the cosmos. They serve as the yardstick we use to measure vast distances across space.

Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova ...