"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

With a network of high-powered radio telescopes, scientists have discovered a giant "cocoon" of gas surrounding one of the ...

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Keplers Supernova, one of the most powerful stellar explosions ever witnessed by ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center removed two of its historic test stands, the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad. Two cosmonauts were inside the spacecraft, and they barely made it out alive. About 90 seconds before the rocket was supposed to ...