Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

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

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

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

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of 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 say these super-powerful blasts ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

Nova explosions occur in semi-detached binary systems containing a cool late-type star and a white dwarf ... one outcome of which is a supernova explosion." This graph shows the near-infrared ...