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

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside stars, far removed from the calm conditions required for life itself. The ...

SpaceX has had a heck of a time getting the worlds tallest, most powerful rocket off the ground. Starship rockets are mostly known for exploding and leaving craters at their launch pads while ...

SpaceX’s Super Heavy-Starship rocket achieved its first successful full test flight on Thursday, returning from space and landing safely without exploding after launching from Texas. The test mission ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...

On Episode 121 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a star about to go nova with astrophysicist Dr. Carlos Badenes. A nova is a star that periodically sheds mass in a huge flare-up ...

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 ...