Instead of observing the light coming to us, we study the debris of exploding stars right here on Earth. As cosmic furnaces, ...

A spectacular supernova, SN 2026aaiv, has erupted in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, located 45 million light-years away in the ...

The newly discovered Type Ia supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 offers amateur astronomers and astrophotographers a rare ...

A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after overfeeding on companion stars indicates ...

Based on radioactive isotopes in deep-sea sediments on Earth and in lunar soil samples returned by Apollo missions, it is ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) have led a global effort to compile a dataset containing information on 2,884 Type Ia supernovae, which are used to measure cosmic distances, providing ...

The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the ...

A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...

When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...

Emily Costello, research scientist at the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and ...

NASA has unveiled 10 stunning images that capture the vivid beauty of the cosmos, from colourful stars and glowing nebulae to ...