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 ...

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly ...

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic ...

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

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 ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

For decades, astronomers have tracked changes in its brightness and surface features in hopes of figuring out why the star ...

Specifically flagged by the UNEP are air pollution from launch emissions, spacecraft emissions in the stratosphere, as well ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most powerful telescopes ever made by NASA till now. It continues to help us set ...