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 ...

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

"When nearby supernovas occur in the future, the radiation could have a pretty dramatic effect on human society." ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

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 … ...