Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced on Monday that it is spinning off wireless communications project Taara into an ...

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

It caused an international crisis.

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

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

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...