But when the supernova finally does blow, our planet will likely have been long ago destroyed by the expansion of our own ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

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

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

Then, the supernova explosion — one with more power than a thousand trillion trillion nuclear bombs — will detonate.

The type Ia supernova explosion of WDJ181058.67+311940.94 “[The dwarfs] are both about as big as the Earth. One has a diameter about 20 percent larger and the other about 50 percent larger.

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting as a lens . Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out ...