Supernova is a new app that has now gone live on the Apple and Android app stores, billing itself as a new “ethical alternative” to Instagram and Facebook, where most of the ad revenues go to ...

Scientists have discovered the first convincing evidence for a new type of stellar explosion -- an electron-capture supernova. While they have been theorized for 40 years, real-world examples have ...

Astronomers have caught a massive star, located around 500 million light-years from Earth, erupting in a cosmic explosion marking the end of its life. The Cartwheel galaxy, in which the astronomers ...

An international team of astronomers has captured the very first evidence of a new type of supernova. “One of the main questions in astronomy is to compare how stars evolve and how they die,” said ...

Unprecedented observations of a nearby supernova in 2020 have given astronomers an extraordinarily detailed look at the explosion of a massive star, including images taken immediately before and after ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 4 years old. A 900-year-old cosmic ...

Astronomy is only possible as a field of study because the universe is so predictable. Just as plants and animals can be categorized into easily-identifiable species and families, stellar objects, too ...