Known as the blaze star, T coronae Borealis will undergo something called a nova, where it periodically bursts in brightness as the star partially explodes. Swinburne astrophysicist Dr Sara Webb said ...

AUSTRALIANS are joining the hunt for exploding stars that can help scientists understand the universe - and reveal the secrets of dark energy. The Australian National University has launched a project ...

IT MAY have been sheer luck, but what scientists observed will give us fresh insight into the life cycle of stars. The explosion of two ageing stars was observed by an international team of ...

Scientists studying ancient Antarctic ice have discovered new evidence that Earth is currently traveling through a cloud of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: For the first time, scientists have witnessed the brilliant hues of an exploding star's ...

Astronomers around the world have witnessed one of the mightiest yet most elusive sights in the universe, an exploding supernova in real time. Many in the astronomical community are rating it as a ...

Aboriginal Australians recorded an eruption of a bright star 150 years ago and wove it into their Dreamtime stories. LONG BEFORE THE WORD astronomy was even coined, Aboriginal Australians were gazing ...

Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...