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 ...

“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and principal ...

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 ...

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 ...

A very strange meteorite found in western Egypt in 1996 may have tiny pieces of the debris from a supernova in it, and not just any supernova but one created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the ...

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

One of the most spectacular events we know is regularly taking place in our Universe is the explosion of stars. Officially called supernovae, these events are so massive they affect not only their ...

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 ...