The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers ...
The race is on to save one of NASA’s most important space telescopes from a looming 90 per cent re-entry risk. Currently ...
A 3-foot-wide meteor weighing about a ton broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday and exploded with the force of 26 ...
The scientific wonderers at What If analyze the blinding light and electromagnetic pulses of an atomic blast occurring in the ...
NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to ...
Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...
Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky—a supernova so bright it was visible ...
Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...
Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.
A supernova witnessed nearly 2,000 years ago is back in focus as NASA’s powerful X-ray telescope uncovers a hidden cosmic ...
A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...
Call it Spud-nick. An image of a tentacled growth in space has caused an uproar online with freaked-out viewers imploring ...