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

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

South Korea satellite launch startup Innospace launched the first commercial rocket from Brazil’s Alcantara Space Center.

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

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

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 ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

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

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

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 ...