A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

An April 3 article on the expansion of the universe incorrectly reported the affiliation of Mario Livio. He is at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. (Published 4/4/01) Astronomers ...

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean currents. He suggests instead it ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified a star that was one million times brighter than the Sun before it exploded as a supernova in 2005. According to current theories of stellar evolution, the ...

Supernova are some of the oldest recorded astronomical phenomena in human history. In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a star that appeared suddenly in the night sky, did not ...