A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

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I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive capabilities are of a supernova. As in, what does a supernova produce? And how ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear ...

Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...