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 ... the study demonstrates the power of big 3D simulations to explain features of the neutron star and black hole mass distribution and elucidate ...

Massive stars eventually explode in a magnificent supernova, after which they explode. Scientists discovered that certain big stars have just departed, leaving no trace in the night sky.

After the supernova the remaining core of the star ... A black hole is made when the centre of a very big star falls in upon itself, or collapses. All the matter of the star becomes squeezed ...

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that ... mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun — within 65 light-years ...