Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star.

An international team of scientists identified a supernova’s source star, or progenitor, for the first time.

A new picture shows the inside of a star turning on itself in the short time before it spectacularly exploded.

Astronomers have used several telescopes to take a new picture of a distant pulsar and its surrounding nebula, shaped like a hand.