At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

For example, at the end of August, 2023, the telescope was focusing its sights on the famous supernova SN 1987A. 168,000 light-years away from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ‘nearby’ supernova may be responsible for this evolutionary event. Although the study doesn’t confirm this ...

To emphasize the point, the most recent supernova to be visible to the naked eye, SN 1987A, exploded on the outskirts of 30 Doradus. And from the ashes of this and other dead stars, the beautiful ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA’s Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by astronomers using artificial intelligence. This incredibly powerful and fleeting ...

Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Despite being just a dozen kilometers across, they pack more mass than our entire solar system. Their interiors are incredibly dense ...