Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

An explosive event in the sky might soon captivate stargazers, as a research team led by the University of Turku predicts ...

Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study ...

New findings have revealed that a supernova struck Earth 10 million years ago, and the evidence lies at the bottom of the sea. An unexpected deep-sea deposit ...

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...