A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

Nearby stellar explosions may have influenced two major mass extinctions on Earth. A recent study explores this link between supernovae and species disappearances. Researchers from Keele ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

At around 650 light-years away, the star is too distant for its radiation or shockwaves to reach Earth with dangerous intensity. For a supernova to truly threaten Earth, it would need to occur ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have ... star system sits roughly 150 light-years from Earth. It's also incredibly heavy, with a combined ...

Astronomers discovered that the stellar partners are separated by a distance of 1/60th the difference between the Earth and the sun, they report in Nature Astronomy. This proximity will eventually ...

There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling only 150 light-years away from Earth–practically our ... should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode ...

A supernova is a powerful and bright explosion ... within 65 light-years of Earth. They then compared this with the rate of those famous 'Big Five' mass extinction events in the history of life ...