"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Physicist Richard Lieu first explored the idea that gravity could exist without mass—now he’s got a new cosmological model ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Scientists typically try to study dark matter by looking at the universe on a large scale ... one paper proposes making use of a nearby supernova to study dark matter in detail.

Edwin Hubble and his colleagues had already reported evidence of a Universe expanding faster than the speed of light. Hubble's eponymous space telescope captured this image of Supernova 1994D in ...

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a ...

When the cosmos' first stars exploded in spectacular supernovas, they may have unleashed enormous amounts of water that ...

Around 100 million years after the Big Bang, supernovas might have filled the early universe with water, creating the conditions necessary for life. The explosions of massive stars released heavy ...

which is more than 1.6 times the current age of the universe. The researchers wrote that the fallout would not damage Earth if it were to happen today. But when the supernova finally does blow ...

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

When the supernova explodes, all the elements produced are thrown out into the Universe. The heavy elements found on Earth, such as gold, came from material thrown out in previous supernova ...