A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...
One pilot was able to make an emergency landing at San Juan after he repeated “mayday” to an air controller three times.
Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...
SpaceX confirmed that one Starlink satellite recently exploded in orbit, and it is now tumbling to re-enter the planet.
SpaceX reportedly informed the FAA about the mishap after the agency had already activated debris response areas.
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...
Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
A midair explosion of SpaceX’s ( SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to ...
Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...
Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...
The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...