Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...

Thousands of light-years from Earth, the dramatic death throes of a giant star are playing out. It's part of a star system ...

But Earth has faced at least five mass extinctions ... Events Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron across ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth ... from the stars' eventual explosive deaths. This led to the system earning the ominous nickname "Death Star." ...