Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams ...

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more common than we previously believed. Previously, scientists had concurred ...

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Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear kick-off timeline, dating back more than 400 years. It's also just 20,000 ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...