Imagine that the Sun is on the verge of exploding. Or that a planet-killing asteroid is headed our way. Or maybe you just ...

SpaceX's Starship Flight 8 ended in an explosion similar to Flight 7, causing flight diversions and delays at multiple airports due to falling debris. The FAA initiated a mishap investigation, the ...

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 ...

The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova — SN 2006bc, ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...

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 ...