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

A star called T Corona Borealis may "go nova" next week, making the star briefly visible to the naked eye. It last happened ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

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

If a supernova were to explode close enough ... by cosmic events challenges the traditional view that all extinction events ...

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 ...

“But if a planet — including the Earth — is located too close to this kind of event, this can have devastating effects.” In the study, the researchers provided no evidence that a supernova ...

which is thought to have been blown by a series of supernova explosions 10 to 20 million years ago. Earth seems to have entered this bubble about 6 million years ago. Passing through the outer ...

"Our project was to model the propagation of cosmic rays from supernova sources to see their potential impacts on life on Earth," Nojiri explained. One particular supernova caught the attention of ...

radiation from a supernova—either in the Scorpius-Centaurus group (460 light-years away) or the Tucana-Horologium group (230 light-years away)—began bathing Earth in radiation for roughly ...