The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

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 at Keele University say these ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

A new study reveals that supernova explosions may have caused two mass extinctions on Earth 372 million and 445 million years ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

A study dating iron-60, an isotope of iron that is a byproduct of supernovas, in the seafloor indicated that a nearby ...

Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature ...