A supernova needs to be at a distance of at least 30 light-years to affect the Earth. If such things happen, our planet’s ...
Betelgeuse’s future supernova won’t harm Earth, but close cosmic explosions could strip our ozone, risking life. Gamma-ray ...
To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...
Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...
The explosion of the sun is a threat straight out of science fiction, but could it really happen, and if so, what would the ...
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...
This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...
A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark the birth ...