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 ...

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

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

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and a familiar landmark in the constellation Orion. It has also ...

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 ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

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

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

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

Researchers found evidence that a companion star may be influencing Betelgeuse, explaining why the star’s brightness changes ...

SpaceX reportedly informed the FAA about the mishap after the agency had already activated debris response areas.