What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive ...

Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

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A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun — within 65 light-years — in the ...

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 at Keele University say ...

Currently, our solar system sits in the middle of a big empty patch of space called the Local Bubble, which is thought to have been blown by a series of supernova explosions 10 to 20 million years ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When two neutron stars merge, they collapse in supernova explosions that are the brightest in the entire universe. Produced by Jenner Deal Follow BI Video ...

(CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the ...