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

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

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

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

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

Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society in October 2024, ...

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

US scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery of the first ever ' black hole triple' system. This system, which breaks ...

Astronomers have used near-infrared light to explore the extreme forces behind the eruption of LMC68, a recurrent nova in 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 ...

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