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

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

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 ...

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

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Keplers ...

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

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...

SpaceX has offered an update on the massive explosion which destroyed the Starship spacecraft on a test stand on Wednesday. The dramatic explosion took place at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca ...

SpaceX's January Starship explosion reportedly caused significant air travel disruptions and posed "potential extreme safety risk" due to a 15-minute delay in SpaceX notifying the FAA, which the ...

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