Instead, high-energy radiation and electromagnetic pulses dominate, posing serious risks to satellites, spacecraft, and ...

Scientists have observed the creation of rare chemical elements in the second-brightest gamma-ray burst seen in outer space. The discovery has been described as opening “the door to a transformative ...

An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as its shape - similar to that of an extremely flat disc - challenges everything they know about explosions in space. Astronomers ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly 13,000 years ago, killing off mammoths and mastodons and wiping out one of the ...

The creation of rare chemical elements was seen in the second-brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed – casting new light on how heavy elements are made A team of scientists has used Nasa’s ...

"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 ...

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 living disappeared. The climate lurched colder again, without much warning.

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The dramatic event took place over the North Pacific Ocean.