The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside stars, far removed from the calm conditions required for life itself. The ...

Australian astronomers have captured never-before-seen photos of an exploding giant star, 100 times bigger than the sun. The imagery of the supernova shows a powerful burst of light as a shock wave ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY It has been considered by some that global cooling in the Plio-Pleistocene might have been due to changes in ocean ...

Astronomers have found evidence that a neutron star exists at the centre of the only exploding star – supernova – visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years, solving a 30-year-old mystery.

A new understanding of the last days of supergiant stars may have given scientists the clues they need to predict when those stars will go supernova, collapsing in some of the largest explosions known ...

A STAR has gone into supernova and there’s a chance you’ll be able to see the explosion in the night sky. An amateur astronomer detected the death of the star near the constellation of Cassiopeia.

LIFE on Earth was almost wiped out when a distant star exploded nearly 360millions years ago, according to a new study. The supernova 65 light years away is thought to have caused a mass extinction ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a far off star exploded - not once but four times. In so doing they confirmed an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity 100 years ago.