Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

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

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

But when the supernova finally does blow, our planet will likely have been long ago destroyed by the expansion of our own dying sun, and our moon along with it. If we could see it, the explosion ...

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 ...

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to make a planet and other celestial spheres caught at the instant it explodes ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Studies of the solar system are advancing by leaps and bounds, especially to try to avoid, or at least know about, episodes ...