"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

LandSpace, a private Beijing-based space firm, launched its Zhuque-3 rocket into orbit this morning, but failed in its historic attempt to reland the rocket booster. While it’s the first trial of its ...

The final stage of a superkilonova. Astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen cosmic explosion that effectively combines a supernova with a kilonova—the blast that results when two dead, ...

Astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen cosmic explosion that effectively combines a supernova with a kilonova—the blast that results when two dead, dense stars collide. When massive stars ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

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 ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...

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

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

For 73 seconds, a crowd of excited Americans looked to the sky in wonder and awe as they waved goodbye to the crew aboard ...

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy.