Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

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

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a ...

Just 150 light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers has identified an exceptional binary system. These two stars, ...

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

It is actually now the Milky Way magnetar that is most likely not to have been created in a supernova explosion. "Magnetars are neutron stars — the dead remnants of stars, composed entirely of ...

SGR 0501+4516 was likely associated with a supernova remnant called HB9—or ... and the white dwarf exploding, leaving nothing behind," Andrew Levan, an astronomer studying star death at Radboud ...