Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supernovae happen across the Milky Way only a few times a century, and these violent explosions are usually remote enough that ...

Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars – supernovae – near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the ...

Earth has faced multiple mass extinctions in its long history, with the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs being the most ...

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...