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

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

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

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Flight tracking data spotted the US Air Force's 'nuclear sniffer' soaring through several states on Thursday, raising concern ...

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

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

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

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 ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...