Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they ...

Just 150 light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers has identified an exceptional binary system. These two stars, ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

But when the supernova finally does blow, our planet will likely have been long ago destroyed by the expansion of our own dying sun, and our moon along with it. If we could see it, the explosion ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

This limit marks the mass at which a star can undergo a thermonuclear explosion, creating a Type Ia supernova.