A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy cosmic events may have had more influence on our planet than we thought.

Supernovas are the most powerful explosions humans have ever seen – but just how close are we? (Picture: NASA Goddard / SWNS) Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass ...

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

“Ultimately, the aim is to address one of our time’s biggest questions in fundamental physics and cosmology—namely, what is most of the universe made of? For that, we need the ZTF supernova ...