When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supernovas are bad news. They can wreck biospheres and flood planets with deadly radiation. And ...

There are those who will tell you that we need to colonize Mars and as many other places as we can, because Earth is on its way down the tube. As we plunge headlong into a future increasingly defined ...

The expansion of Kepler's Supernova Remnant over the past 25 years is summed up in 40 seconds in a new video released by NASA. The stunning time-lapse was created using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

If Earth-like planets require an extremely rare supernova encounter, then water-depleted rocky planets might be exceptional. But if cosmic-ray immersion is sufficient—and common—then the conditions ...

Stellar explosions are eventful cosmic phenomena that light up the sky, but they can also be incredibly destructive for nearby planets. Depending on the blast radius and the size of the star, the ...

A recent study of supernovae reveals yet another way the death of a star could spell doom for planets orbiting nearby stars. When the blast wave from a supernova plows into dense clouds of gas, the ...