Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Two of Earth's largest mass extinction events were likely triggered by the fallout from two supernovae in nearby space. This ...

Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

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

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

According to data gathered from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, dark energy, long thought to ...

The new study, published Thursday (March 13) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, found that the rate ...