Supernovas are bad news. They can wreck biospheres and flood planets with deadly radiation. And now, a recent study has added a new potential threat: a special type of supernova that can destroy a ...

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 ...

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

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 ...

NASA has discovered CWISE J1249, a mysterious red celestial object moving at over one million miles per hour through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 final stages of a ...

LOS ANGELES — Scientists think they have solved the mystery of how planets form around a star born in a violent supernova explosion, saying they have detected for the first time a swirling disk of ...