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 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

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

With an ultra-tight orbit, they are inexorably drawing closer, doomed to collide, which will trigger a double supernova. The explosions are predicted to occur in... 22.6 billion years, give or take 1 ...

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

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

One, he says is more maneuverable, more capable, and more rapid. "Our Supernova Spacecraft is now providing the ability to move quickly to other orbital destinations in ways that just aren't ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." The Hubble Space Telescope may ...