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 ...

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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

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

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

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

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“Kaboom” is not the sound you want a rocket ship to make, as a rule. Yet that’s the problem facing the private aerospace company SpaceX and its leader, Elon Musk. Instead of going to space, their ...

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 ...