These blue giants, many times more massive ... most energetic explosions in the universe. If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to Earth, the results would be devastating for ...

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

The star, known in modern times as Sanduleak 69-202, is a blue supergiant 25 times more massive than the Sun. Such explosions distribute all the common elements such as Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen ...

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 ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarf stars are responsible for creating Type 1a supernovas, but ...

People took to X, formerly Twitter, to share their thoughts on Blue Origin's NS-31 flight on Monday, which featured an ...

Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after it exploded. This "supernova archaeology" uncovered important clues ...

A type Ia supernova occurs when a white dwarf — the cooling remnant of an aging star — draws hydrogen from a companion sun. When the dwarf reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, the star ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarf stars are responsible for creating Type 1a supernovas ...