Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN ...

The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova ...

As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to the incredible force of nature’s ...

By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star collapsed, triggering a supernova explosion so bright it could be ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion that may have been powered up by a ...

There are things in this Universe the human mind simply has a very hard time understanding. Like, say, a supernova explosion caused by a star reaching the end of its life, an event so massive that, ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the expanding Crab Nebula. New images compared with older ones show ...