Thousands of light-years from Earth, the dramatic death throes of a giant star are playing out. It's part of a star system ...

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

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

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

A new study reveals that supernova explosions may have caused two mass extinctions on Earth 372 million and 445 million years ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

The Solar System sits in a bubble in space known as the Local Bubble, a region relatively devoid of other stars. Astronomers believe that this bubble was carved out by a series of supernova ...

Nearby stars exploding as supernovae relatively recently ... which is thought to have been blown by a series of supernova explosions 10 to 20 million years ago. Earth seems to have entered this ...

Throughout history, our vision of space has been shaped by a handful of rare exploding stars visible to the naked eye. In the year 1054, stargazers in North America spotted a supernova near a ...

Exploding white dwarfs observed by the ... over which a star can explode in a core-collapse supernova and create a neutron star. If a white dwarf is in a binary system with a "normal" main ...