Astronomers have detected the radio afterglow of a powerful space explosion that went unseen, possibly an orphan gamma-ray burst or a rare blackhole event 1.7 billion light-years away ...

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

SpaceX's 2nd Starship test flight exploded 8 minutes after liftoff, but Elon Musk says it could have been very different if the craft was carrying a payload. When you purchase through links on our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following a successful year for Starship in 2024, SpaceX has endured a series of relative disappointments for the world's largest ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

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 ...

Starship's first three test flights of the year, from January through May, all ended with the spacecraft exploding in dramatic fashion while traveling through the air. Those setbacks were followed in ...