Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Scientists have discovered a tropical “dynamite tree” that explosively launches seeds at 150 mph. The mechanism uses physics, ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...

In tropical forests across Central and South America, a quiet tree hides one of the most violent forms of seed dispersal ...

In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

The natural world is constantly surprising us, and now new research has suggested that ’fountains of diamonds’ could be sent ...