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 ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

SpaceX reportedly informed the FAA about the mishap after the agency had already activated debris response areas.

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s ( SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...