A rare supernova let scientists glimpse a star's interior, revealing a dense silicon-sulphur shell and unexpected helium that should have vanished earlier. (Nanowerk News) An exploding star has given ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

What’s the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas about what ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Get any of our free email newsletters — news headlines, sports, arts & entertainment, state legislature ...

This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...

Some exploding stars (supernovae) experience two blasts. These double explosions occur in white dwarf stars. The explosions create two distinct calcium-rich layers. This discovery helps explain how ...

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 ...