Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...

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 ...

In tropical forests across Central and South America, a quiet tree hides one of the most violent forms of seed dispersal ...

In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

The natural world is constantly surprising us, and now new research has suggested that ’fountains of diamonds’ could be sent ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

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