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 ...

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

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.

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 observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...

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 ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

A NEARBY star is about to reach supernova, which may finally make it visible to the naked eye. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, according to Nasa, as this reoccurring nova outburst only happens ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

Supernova 1987A – located in a neighbouring dwarf galaxy – has been observed for more than three decades. Astronomers have found strong evidence of a neutron star in the remnants of an exploding star ...

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 ...