Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

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 ...

Supernovas occur when a giant star runs out of energy. As it runs out of fuel to keep burning, the star expands massively before collapsing under its own gravitational pull. When it does, it releases ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

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.

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.