Astronomers observing a nearby young star have witnessed the aftermath of two massive collisions between large rocky bodies. Credit: Thomas Müller (MPIA) While surveying distant worlds beyond our ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits ...

Astronomers studying a nearby star expected to find a planet. Instead, they caught something far rarer in the act: the violent aftermath of two massive planetesimal collisions unfolding in real time.

Like any long-running franchise, there’s always some wacky non-canonical ephemera spinning out of it. Star Trek is no different. And one of the wackier ones came in the early days of Star Trek: The ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

Around the nearby star Fomalhaut, asteroids are smashing into each other in a series of cosmic cataclysms, creating huge clouds of dust. For the first time, astronomers are watching one of these ...

NASA says that a stellar-mass black hole tore a star apart which created an unusually long-lasting gamma ray burst that has been identified as "GRB 250702B." AccuWeather's Emilee Speck has the story.

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said Tuesday. The flash was ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just five percent of its current age, astronomers said Tuesday. Originally ...

Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a blast from the past in all the right ways, featuring a sidescrolling beat ’em up gameplay with gorgeously pixelated graphics that evoke the nostalgia of playing Marvel ...