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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ‘nearby’ supernova may be responsible ... with the remnants of exploded star stuff filling the area around ...

This HII region is seen to coexist with the reflection nebula, sharing the same stellar centre, and is created from the star ...

The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks ...