Scientists trying to work out whether a star exploded and the resulting debris crashed into Earth 10 million years ago may be one step closer to solving the mystery. They discovered an unusual amount ...

ARE mini black holes raining down through the Earth’s atmosphere? It’s possible, says a team of physicists. They think this could explain mysterious observations from mountain-top experiments over the ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the violent surfaces of collapsed stars: they recreated a thermonuclear reaction ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...