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 ...

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 ...

Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of hydrogen into helium that powers them. This process will keep the Sun ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star, in a laboratory rather than from afar via a telescope. Cosmic ...

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 put together the first three-dimensional reconstruction of an exploding star (known as a supernova). Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, they looked at ...

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 ...

The “renegade” star explosion has never before been witnessed and is set to revise our understanding of how most massive stars die. Although the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite first ...