When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...

SN 2015as was a core-collapse supernova—a cataclysmic explosion that happens when the core of a star far more massive than the sun runs out of fuel and collapses under its own gravity ...

The first type of supernova is a core-collapse supernova. These occur in stars at least eight to 10 times more massive the Sun. As stars age, they deplete the hydrogen in their core. They then ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

core-collapse supernovas, when a large star collapses under its own mass; and pair-instability supernovas, when a star's ...

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

Einstein’s theory of general relativity describe how the gravity of massive objects and extreme phenomena—such as black hole mergers and core-collapse supernovae (which sometimes end up as ...