Principal investigator Daniel Whalen of Portsmouth University in the United Kingdom and his colleagues found that a rare type of supernova created only by the earliest stars formed enough water to ...

This is the first time this has ever been done with a supernova remnant, the researchers wrote. One of the key takeaways from the animation is that the nebula is expanding at around 2.2 million ...

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 ...

A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soon happen. Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova would soon rain down on the unsuspecting cichlids, tearing apart their DNA ...