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 ...

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 ...

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.

ASTRONOMERS will be able to see the brightest exploding star for 40 years – with just a pair of ­ordinary binoculars. The supernova, known as PTF11kly, is 21million light years away in the Great Bear ...

A nova 3,000 light-years away is due to become visible from Earth. T Coronae Borealis could be visible to the naked eye in the coming weeks. A few tips can help you see this cosmic burst, which will ...

SCIENTISTS have found an “alien” grain of dust that survived the birth of our Solar System. It’s believed the tiny speck of material, found inside a meteorite in Antarctica, was created by a distant ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a neutron star in the remnants of an exploding star (Nasa/Esa/CSA/M Matsuura [Cardiff University]/R Arendt [Nasa’s Goddard Spaceflight Centre and University ...