Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

Behold the mysterious objects populating the "low surface brightness universe" that the latest radio telescopes are beginning ...

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

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

This HII region is seen to coexist with the reflection nebula, sharing the same stellar centre, and is created from the star ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R.

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.