Earth was showered by radioactive debris from supernovae - exploding stars - as recently as 1.7 million years ago, research has shown. A series of stellar blasts are thought to have occurred around ...

Three supernova have been found that exploded in the dark emptiness of intergalactic space, far from any other galaxies or stars. Owing to their remoteness, any planets around the stars would have had ...

A supernova is the giant explosion that ensues when a star runs out of fuel Two new studies confirm that multiple exploding stars, called supernovae, have showered the Earth with radiation within the ...

Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY It has been considered by some that global cooling in the Plio-Pleistocene might have been due to changes in ocean ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

For the past few years, they have perfected the technique of automatically taking pictures of numerous distant galaxies to see if any have an exploding star within their midst. Mark Armstrong has his ...

Most physicists believe the universe is being pulled apart at an increasingly rapid rate by a mysterious force called dark energy. But this growth may not be as fast as thought, after astronomers ...

EXPLODING stars could have been responsible for mass extinctions previously on Earth, scientists have said, and there is no reason to believe supernovae could not wipe out some life on the planet ...

Supernovae (SN) are among the most cataclysmic events in the Universe. For a few days or weeks, these exploding stars can outshine an entire galaxy of their companions, and be visible from the other ...

07:49, Wed, May 29, 2019 Updated: 08:04, Wed, May 29, 2019 It was the extraordinary step that help personified the species – while other apes roamed on all fours, mankind’s predecessors stood up onto ...

Two new studies confirm that multiple exploding stars, called supernovae, have showered the Earth with radiation within the last few million years. One study, external reports traces of radioactive ...