A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

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 ...

An April 3 article on the expansion of the universe incorrectly reported the affiliation of Mario Livio. He is at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. (Published 4/4/01) Astronomers ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified a star that was one million times brighter than the Sun before it exploded as a supernova in 2005. According to current theories of stellar evolution, the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that new Webb images of what ...

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 ...

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 ...