A spectacular view of an exploding star was yesterday released on a new web site launched to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's tenth year in orbit. The multi-coloured fireball, 6500 light years from ...

A NASA space telescope has captured the violent death of an exploding star in visible light for the first time. The Kepler space telescope captured the first, brilliant flash of an exploding star’s ...

NASA is celebrating the holiday season with photographs of the remnants of a supernova star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The star, named Cassiopeia A (Cas A), shines brightly from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space observatory captured an image of a Wolf-Rayet star called WR 124 in the Sagittarius ...

Nasa's Hubble space telescope has captured an amazing view of a huge explosive star system. The binary-star system (meaning it is made up of two stars) keeps exploding, and shooting curls and loops of ...

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.

PARIS: An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said on Tuesday. The flash ...