Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The never-before-seen phenomenon has been discovered around a white dwarf, named ...

Astronomers have been shocked by an inexplicable and unprecedented wave that came out of a dead star. Occasionally, the gas ...

Engineers need to precisely predict how instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage during rocket launches, for example. A team from YOKOHAMA National University has ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

Larger than the Milky Way, this wave managed to form a mysterious hydrogen "recycling plant" in one of space's scariest regions. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate ...

A powerful shock wave traveling through a cloud of gas left behind by the explosive death of a star has a bizarre quirk: Part of it is traveling in the wrong direction, a new study reveals. In the ...