DURING the past 10 million years, a series of stars in the Earth’s neighbourhood exploded, raining a radioactive form of iron into our oceans. The remnants of these supernovae hit the Earth between ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could help scientists to discover the invisible ‘dark energy’ that is powering the ...

Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She has previously been named Science Journalist of The Year, was Highly Commended at the Society ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

Scientists have just managed to reproduce a nuclear reaction that had never been observed directly before. The experiment ...

Scientists have uncovered indirect evidence for a theoretical class of supernovas so immensely powerful they leave absolutely nothing behind, defying the typical stellar remnants of neutron stars or ...

WASHINGTON, April 3 : A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or ...

Scientists measured phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27 atoms with high precision. Discovery shows neutron star explosions are stronger and faster than thought. Findings improve models of element formation ...

Exploding stars may have had a significant effect on the evolution of life on Earth, a study suggests. The link emerged after scientists matched the geological record dating back 500 million years ...