Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” Co-investigator John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said in a statement.

New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

A video showing a 32-year-old man bringing his girlfriend home to meet his family, and being greeted by about 30 relatives lining both sides of the road, is causing a stir on social media.

After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of exploding in a powerful supernova, they report in a new study published in ...

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber Heavy snow warning as up to 30 inches to ...

The US Army is turning its AH-64 Apache attack helicopter into a drone hunter thanks to a new 30-mm round for its M230 chain-gun that can take out Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) using a proximity ...

Wildfires are "exploding" across Florida this week as the Sunshine State grapples with its worst drought in decades. Florida’s wildfire threat is intensifying, leaving vegetation across much of the ...

The Lunar New Year has plenty of traditions—such as cleaning the house, presenting ritual offerings to ancestors and enjoying symbolic foods—to encourage prosperity in the year ahead. Many Asian and ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...