Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

"Discovering that the two stars are separated by just 1/60th of the Earth-Sun distance, I quickly realised that we had discovered the first double white dwarf binary that will undoubtedly lead to a ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

This triggers a "core-collapse" supernova that blows away these outer layers and most of the mass of the dying star. The ...

Portal Space Systems has raised $17.5 million to accelerate the development of a space vehicle with a solar thermal ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

Washington resident Jeff Thornburg has an impressive and lengthy resume, and now his company has a new type of space vehicle: The Supernova.

Members of the Intergalactic Protectors of the Fall Line, one of a dozen teams that competed early this month in the Sun ...

but around 50% of sun-like stars exist in binary systems with a stellar companion, and this dual existence can lead to an exciting and explosive afterlife. "This supernova remnant is classified as ...