Spacewatchers have captured a jaw-dropping image of a cosmic “Hand of God”. Astronomers have used several telescopes to take ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the elements that make up the Universe.

A supernova blast 2.2 billion light-years from Earth has given astronomers a deeper view into a star's centre than ever before.

The success of "The Subway" fell just days before the annual Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, which takes place this year at ...

For the first time, astrophysicists detected a supernova embedded in a wind rich with silicon, sulfur and argon. Observations suggest the massive star lost its outer hydrogen and helium layers long ...

Scientists have gotten a rare peek into a dying star, exposing its interior as it exploded. The most massive stars go out ...

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A completely new supernova variant finally shows a glimpse of a star’s innermost “guts” moments before its destruction.