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

But it's not going to hurt us. Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion, a red giant sitting about 500 light years away. It's huge ...

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

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

a neutron star is formed when a massive star undergoes a supernova explosion, while a white dwarf emerges when a star with a low to medium mass exhausts its nuclear fuel and sheds its outer layers.

How could they? A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soon happen. Cosmic rays from a nearby ...

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse was captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. There are only two nearby stars that could go supernova within the next million years or so: Antares and Betelgeuse.

A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

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