Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

Astronomers still can’t entirely account for the explosive power of a supernova. “It was thought that this rebounding shock that’s produced when the neutron star forms could explode the star ...

Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and it is one of dozens found near remains of the Cassiopeia A supernova. The Webb images show ...

"The high explosion energy of AT 2023adsv could indicate that the properties of supernova explosions might have been different in the early universe." Supernovas in the early universe just hit ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth. A newly released Hubble pic shows ...

Supernova is a relatively straightforward science fiction movie — at least until it isn’t. The plot centers on a six-person hospital ship that answers a distress call and rescues Karl (Peter ...

If any of the three people who directed Supernova had made a science-fiction film with little studio interference, you'd likely have a good movie. In fact, if you divided Supernova’s approximate ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program, could help scientists add more detail to the cosmic picture of stellar life and death they are ...