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 ...
A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in ...
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...
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 ...
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most violent flashes — capable of releasing more energy in a fraction of a second than ...
In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...
A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...