And guess what? Its outburst will be visible to the naked eye, providing a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a rare stellar explosion known as a nova. The star, T Coronae Borealis ...

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This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating objects ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

However, a decade of observations with the Hubble Telescope and data from ESA’s Gaia mission revealed something unexpected: the magnetar does not come from that stellar explosion. NIR image (JHK bands ...

The death toll from a massive explosion at an Iranian port climbed to 40 on Sunday, while the cause of the explosion remained shrouded in confusion. A jarring blast rippled through the Shahid ...

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 25 ...

Instead, the team hypothesized a stellar explosion may have been a potential factor in the Late Devonian extinction event 372 million years ago and one at the end of the Late Ordovician 445 ...

White dwarfs are the stellar corpses that are created when ... This limit marks the mass at which a star can undergo a thermonuclear explosion, creating a Type Ia supernova.