Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

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

The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova — SN 2006bc, ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Ever wonder how much of what you know about space is actually true? Popular culture has fed us a steady diet of space ...

On Episode 121 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a star about to go nova with astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes. A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...

A MYSTERIOUS bright flash was captured above Earth by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The footage shows a split-second white and green explosion above the Mediterranean sea, ...

Elon Musk, SpaceX have an exploding rocket ship problem originally appeared on TheStreet. While Tesla prepares for the upcoming robotaxi launch, another Elon Musk company is facing new problems as a ...

Vladimir V. Putin presides over a Moscow military parade featuring colossal ICBMs. Putin has threatened to launch nuclear missiles against NATO allies aiding Ukraine, and is believed to developing ...