1.2 billion years away from earth, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has managed to capture a spectacle never seen before by humans on camera: the brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave.

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

It was taken by the Kepler telescope in space. Produced by Kevin Reilly. Video courtesy of NASA. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech NASA recently captured the "shockwave breakout" of red super ...

It was a young, hot, bright blue star, what they call a blue supergiant ... and the repercussions spread beyond just the inquiry into exploding stars. Scientists view this explosion as a natural ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

While scientists are divided on exactly when it will explode, they agree it will be an exciting event, and have their telescopes trained ... wants to see an exploding star, even rough predictions ...

An exploding star that will ... going to be all that spectacular. The star is normally about magnitude 10, which is too faint to be seen without a telescope. But when it’s flaring, it’s ...