Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

Reverse Shock: A shock wave that travels back into the ejecta of a supernova, interacting with the material expelled during the explosion. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the universe.

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In a major breakthrough in understanding stellar life and death, Monash University scientists have created the first ever model to convincingly ...

A nearby supernova that peppered the Earth with cosmic rays 2-3 million years ago has been blamed for an upsurge in viruses ...

In 1928, Benjamin Rones, M.D. and Alan C. Woods, M.D. published the first research paper from the Wilmer Eye Institute, titled The Therapeutic Use of Tuberculin in Ocular Tuberculosis. Their findings, ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material ... Low-field magnetars, first discovered in 2010, are similar stellar remnants that have ...

"When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant," wrote an international team of scientists in a paper ...