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

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

A new study reveals that supernova explosions may have caused two mass extinctions on Earth 372 million and 445 million years ...

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

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

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history. An analysis of ...

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

"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 ...

This video sparkles with synthetic supernovae from the OpenUniverse project, which simulates observations from NASA's ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...