In a nutshell A massive supernova explosion 13,000 years ago may have triggered the Younger Dryas ice age by damaging Earth’s ...

A groundbreaking study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyhas revealed that supernovae, the ...

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

Research links supernovae to Earth’s climate shifts, revealing potential atmospheric impacts and adding a cosmic layer to ...

According to the team's calculations, about one supernova happens every 400 million years within close enough vicinity to Earth that its radiation could impact the atmosphere. The nearest stars ...

When a massive star explodes in a brilliant flash called a supernova, it sends out a wave of high-energy particles into space ...

They believe a supernova explosion close to Earth could be to blame for both ... events linked to other factors such as asteroid impacts or the ice ages. Comparing these data sets, the experts ...

Two of Earth's largest mass extinction ... excluding those linked to triggers like asteroid impacts and ice ages). "We calculated the supernova rate close to Earth and found it to be consistent ...

A series of supernovae explosions in the previous ... model to study the impact of nearby SNe explosions on Earth's atmosphere. Using EMAC, the authors say they've modeled "the complex atmospheric ...

The impact, however, only created a partial ... Although the light from the supernova first reached Earth on August 6, 1181, the explosion occurred much earlier. The star was 7,500 light-years ...