On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...
A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a stark warning to air pilots about the dangers of exploding space rockets after a pair of failed SpaceX launches that showered deadly debris over busy ...
A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in ...
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most violent flashes — capable of releasing more energy in a fraction of a second than ...
NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was caught fragmenting ...
In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...