BERKELEY, CA — A group of scientists affiliated with the SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have found startling evidence that there is more than one kind of Type Ia supernova, a class of exploding stars ...

The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They’re bright enough to see across large ...

A team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Howie Marion has detected a flash of light from the companion to an exploding star. This is the first time astronomers have witnessed ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed radio waves emitted by a Type Ia supernova, a type of explosion originating from a white dwarf star. This provides important clues to understand how white ...

Type Ia supernovae represent the dramatic thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars, typically triggered in binary systems by processes such as accretion from a companion or the merger of two ...

Just 150 light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers has identified an exceptional binary system. These two stars, separated by only 1/60th of the Earth-Sun distance, are on a collision course. This ...

Ironically, to study dark energy — a murky, unknown something that seems to act as an accelerant for our universe’s expansion — astronomers rely on brilliant supernovae. From 2013 to 2019, the Dark ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe. Dr Mathew Smith and Dr Georgios Dimitriadis from Lancaster ...

Isn’t it amazing that the heavy elements we see here on Earth were created by stars going supernova? The short answer to your question is that different kinds of supernovae are caused by different ...

Type Ia supernovae as a research area encompasses the observational, theoretical, and computational study of thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs and their applications in astrophysics and ...

It’s easy to forget that stars, just like us, have lifetimes. They’re born, they live, and eventually, they die. And for some stars, their death is dramatic, producing an explosion so powerful it can ...