On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

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Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...

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In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in ...

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 ...

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