Explosions in the sky and explosions on land are literally worlds apart. A supernova and a land mine explosion don't seem ...

A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift the course of evolution.

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

A supernova explosion about 2.5 million years ago sent cosmic rays to Earth. Around that time, virus diversity in Lake ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced ...

Along the East African Rift, Lake Tanganyika lies in isolation among towering mountains. The lake is more than 400 miles […] ...

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 ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...