Although they are bright stars, supernova cannot create the heaviest elements.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton telescope has obtained the first close-up image of a white dwarf moving around its twin star ...
ESO recently published a series of central shots of a cosmic cloud called RCW 38, along with the newly created stars and planetary systems.
Star explosions known as type 1a supernovae have long been used as a standard candle, their constant brightness is a way for astronomers to measure cosmic distances. and the
Comets contain large amounts of liquid water in the interior for the first 1 million years of the formation process, a new study confirms.
UC Irvine cosmologists have discovered the two most distant supernovae ever used using a new technique that can help find dead stars at the edge of the universe.
The team of scientists has developed a tool to measure distances from Earth to supernovae with unprecedented high precision.
A new study has been discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick that a mysterious stellar explosion recorded in 2006 could mark the abnormal demise of a star with
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of San Diego have for the first time observed what happens when a star is 50 times larger than the sun explodes.
A star that is millions of times brighter than the sun explodes even under the age of immaturity enters the self-destruct phase.