From meteor storms to exploding stars or supernovae, there are a myriad of rare or once-in-a-lifetime events that take place ...

Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp. When you purchase ...

Astronomers are investigating a rare cosmic event called a 'superkilonova,' which may have involved both a supernova and a kilonova from the same massive star system. The event, more than a billion ...

A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.

For more than a decade, a ghostly shell of radio light sat in survey data, too faint and ambiguous to be called anything more ...

After midnight, the desert outside of Abu Dhabi is especially quiet. the kind of silence that occasionally muffles footsteps, ...

A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists ...

A stellar explosion with subtle hints of a black hole binary in the background. (Courtesy: Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

The Black Keys start May with "Peaches!, " an album of cover songs leading a new music releases batch that includes titles ...