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 ...

‘Supernova explosions are some of the most energetic ... it sends out powerful shockwaves and an expanding cloud of hot gas.

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

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

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

These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times ... we immediately chased this system on some of the biggest optical telescopes in the world to ...

This "supernova archaeology" uncovered important clues about a star that self-destructed—probably more than a million years ago. Today, the system called GRO J1655-40 contains a black hole with ...

That'll be what causes the supernova event. "With an international team of astronomers, four based at The University of Warwick, we immediately chased this system on some of the biggest optical ...