Today, we know them to be not stars being born but stars in their death throes, and we call the event a supernova. (The earliest record of a possible supernova appears in a prehistoric rock ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive capabilities are of a supernova. As in, what does a supernova produce?

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course with one another that should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode as ...

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Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle too close to one another in around 23 billion years. | Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick ...