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

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

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

They then performed supernova simulations to determine how current theories of stellar evolution could explain a neutron star with such a low mass.

Around 100 million years after the Big Bang, supernovas might have filled the early universe with water, creating the ...

WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...

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

A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.