While we understand the basic concept behind supernovae to be the final energetic stage of stellar life, there are a ton of pressing questions that continue to riddle astronomers’ minds about how they ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

Scientists have begun to unravel the mysteries behind a star's dying moments. Using a new 3D computer model, researchers were able to reconstruct what happens before a star explodes. Supernovae are ...

Supernovae are stellar explosions of cosmic proportions (literally). They are some of the most violent events in the known universe. A single supernova emits enough energy to outshine an entire galaxy ...

Giant stars die a violent death. After a life of several million years, they collapse into themselves and then explode in what is known as a supernova. How these stars explode remains a mystery.

Gravity eventually overpowers financial fakery. When debt-asset bubbles expand at rates far above the expansion of earnings and real-world productive wealth, their collapse is inevitable. The ...

The death of a massive star is among the most energetic events in the cosmos. However, the particular way a star explodes is a matter of some dispute: different theoretical models predict different ...

(Nanowerk News) Appearing ten to a hundred times brighter at its peak, and with a much faster rise toward the peak, stellar explosions AT 2018cow (nicknamed the COW) and SN 2018gep (nicknamed the GEP) ...

While we know that all the Sun and the lineup of planets would have been accumulated over time from a dense cloud of gas where gravity allowed all of it to clump together, we weren’t entirely sure if ...

Check out the amazing new image that NASA just released of Cassiopeia A, the remains of a supernova that would have been visible from Earth 300 years ago. This new composite image was released to ...

The mysterious first moments of a supernova have now been modeled in 3-D—showing what happens in a dying star's heart from half a second to about two hours after the blast begins. The development ...