A spaceship and the man behind the wizardry of Harry Potter are coming to Bradford in a bid to change the preconceptions of 600 schoolchildren. Steve Bennett will be bringing his 43ft rocket to the ...

A supernova is the giant explosion that ensues when a star runs out of fuel Two new studies confirm that multiple exploding stars, called supernovae, have showered the Earth with radiation within the ...

YOUNG scientists experimented with exploding custard at a fun event today, Wednesday, March 13. The idea of the Big Bang Science event at Stockton Riverside College was to inspire young people to take ...

Earth was showered by radioactive debris from supernovae - exploding stars - as recently as 1.7 million years ago, research has shown. A series of stellar blasts are thought to have occurred around ...

A build-up of gas in the adult dinosaurs' bodies as they decomposed could have built up to such a pressure that they burst open, causing their embryos and organs to fly out in all directions, it was ...

A new type of exploding star that gives rise to vast amounts of calcium – which could end up being incorporated into our bones – has been discovered in a nearby galaxy by astronomers. The exploding ...

For the past few years, they have perfected the technique of automatically taking pictures of numerous distant galaxies to see if any have an exploding star within their midst. Mark Armstrong has his ...

A bizarre card game called Exploding Kittens has become the most popular campaign in the history of crowd-funding site Kickstarter. In the nine days since the game was announced, more than 116,000 ...

This video zoom shows images of SN1987A from ESO telescopes, ending with an artist's impression of a close-up of the exploding star. Astronomers have for the first time obtained a 3D view of the ...