Exploding supernovas and the resulting "winds" were vital in the formation of today's galaxies, says an international team of astronomers. Scientists from the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Switzerland ...

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 ...

The IceCube will search for neutrinos, tiny subatomic particles created by exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, and other phenomena like black holes What’s remarkable about the IceCube Telescope isn’t ...

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 ...

Earth has faced multiple mass extinctions in its long history, with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs being the most famous. But what if some of these catastrophic events were caused by ...

A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...

WASHINGTON – A massive exploding faraway star – the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen – has scientists wondering if a similar celestial fireworks show may light up the sky much closer to ...

Originally published on June 1, 2019. Humans might be able to thank exploding stars in our cosmic neighborhood for triggering our evolution from knuckle-walking apes into fully bipedal creatures. A ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...