Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

They carry a decent fraction of the total supernova energy with them, and they can also strip ozone layers and soak a planet's surface in deadly radiation. Get the Space.com Newsletter ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

New type of supernova could eat a planet's atmosphere from 150 light years away. Cassidy Ward. Sun, January 8, 2023 at 4:30 PM UTC. 5 min read.

Nearby supernova blasts may have severely altered Earth’s climate history Tree rings reveal spikes in carbon-14 from ancient ...

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

The stellar explosion, known as a supernova, will be brighter than any planet and almost as bright as the full moon. It will be visible during the day, and you could read a book to its light at ...

At its closer distance to Earth, the supernova remnant would be about 46 light-years wide. If it were much farther away, it would be a much larger cloud—around 157 light-years across.

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Astronomers simulated two types of supernova explosions to find that the most massive early stars could have created plentiful water that may have gone into the formation of future stars and planets.

NASA’s TESS (which stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is built to spot undetected planets orbiting distant stars. I mean, it’s right there in the … ...