We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

But for a supernova to produce the strongest type of gamma-ray burst, the star must be some 30 to 40 times the size of the sun. This new powerful detection, so rare that we'll likely only observe ...

A new study has shed light on the orbital alignment of the well-known Wolf-Rayet 104 (WR 104) system, long considered a potential threat due to its speculated gamma-ray burst (GRB) risk. Observations ...

Radiation from an exploding star may have had a profound effect on the evolution of life on Earth, a new study suggests. About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Africa"s Lake ...

An illustration of a supernova burst. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) Radiation from an exploding star may have had a profound effect on the evolution of life on Earth, a new study suggests.

"This new fast radio burst shows us that just when you think ... FRBs are usually attributed to the supernova deaths of massive young stars in younger galaxies experiencing bouts of star formation.

Scientists have traced a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) to the edge of an ancient galaxy where star formation has drastically dropped. Researchers are struggling to explain what caused it.

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More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...