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 ...

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

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

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

"It's insane that something is from space can have that kind of an impact on our electronics. So we're thinking, okay, how ...

Around 100 million years after the Big Bang, supernovas might have filled the early universe with water, creating the ...

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The Wolf-RAY star located at the center of Thor's helmet is expected to explode as a supernova within thousands of years.

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 ...

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