In results presented this week at the 2003 meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, astrophysicist Greg Aldering and colleagues report that their supernova factory project has ...

The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved “first light” during the ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

The Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

A nearby supernova could ruin your whole day. It’s difficult to grasp just how powerful an event the explosion of an entire star is. The energy released as visible light every second by a typical ...

Physicists have made a leap forward in understanding how ghostly particles called neutrinos might interact with each other, by modeling how neutrinos escaping into space from exploding stars flow like ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA ...

The JWST’s NIRCam image of the expanding remnant of supernova 1987A. The remains of a star that exploded 36 years ago have fallen under the gaze of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — and this ...

Meteorites can act as time capsules, preserving molecules from the solar system’s infancy. Certain fingerprints have been detected in these ancient space rocks that suggest a supernova went off right ...

Nearly forty years ago residents of Earth were treated to a rare cosmic sight: an exploding star in our sky that was visible to the naked eye. Called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), it was the closest ...