A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift the course of evolution.

A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...

Explosions in the sky and explosions on land are literally worlds apart. A supernova and a land mine explosion don't seem ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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

Their work provides crucial insights into the explosion mechanisms of this rare type of supernova and the final evolutionary stages of its progenitor star. This study is published in The ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it ... (NASA) The latter spike, they found, was likely the result of a supernova explosion nearby between 2 million and 3 million years ago, ...

A supernova explosion about 2.5 million years ago sent cosmic rays to Earth. Around that time, virus diversity in Lake ...