A star exploded roughly 260 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and astronomers have now traced the blast’s fingerprints in X-ray and infrared ...

The ’string of pearls’ supernova relic has drawn attention as scientists investigate the unusual star at its center.

Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in ...

Astronomers believe they may have observed a “dirty fireball” star explosion for the first time. This potential discovery was made through the detection of a powerful X-ray flash by the Einstein Probe ...

In March 2026, the Einstein Probe detected a brief flash of soft X-rays emitted from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. The flash, dubbed EP260321a, immediately triggered a worldwide ...