Astronomers have found evidence that proves a 40-year-old supernova theory correct and a mysterious sky event that occurred in 1054 AD. A new study has been published in Nature Astronomy and outlines ...

In 1953, two CalTech astrophysicists with a side passion for archaeology drove a battered Jeep across the northern Arizona desert to the top of White Mesa, a historic Pueblo settlement now located in ...

A unique set of observations, obtained with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), led to the discovery of direct evidence for material that surrounded a star before it exploded as a Type Ia supernova. The ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY It has been considered by some that global cooling in the Plio-Pleistocene might have been due to changes in ocean ...

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 ...

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A new discovery is casting doubt on the idea that a type of star explosion shines with equal brightness wherever it occurs in the universe. The finding could have implications for estimates of the ...

A supernova like that one that formed this remnant, Cassiopeia A, may have sparked the formation of our solar system, an August 2012 study suggests. The shock wave from an exploding star likely helped ...

A neat piece of detective work to trace the roots of an exploded star has turned up a deeper mystery: why the victim, which turned out to be a beast of star more than 50 times bigger than our sun, ...

A distant star explosion could have been responsible for a massive extinction event on Earth. A new paper suggests that a star some 65 light-years from Earth may have exploded into a supernova, and ...