New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review ...

Scientists trying to work out whether a star exploded and the resulting debris crashed into Earth 10 million years ago may be one step closer to solving the mystery. They discovered an unusual amount ...

Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal matter in the universe, such as stars and galaxies. Through ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years ...

Previous research pointed to climate change as the main driver of permafrost explosions in Siberia, but a new study offers a ...

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This photo is the first close-up image of such a distant star ever taken. (Image credit: ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.) For the first time, astronomers have taken a high-quality, zoomed-in photo of a star ...

There are stars exploding all around us. They burst, flash and fade. Some leave traces of their spectacular journeys as supernovae in telescopes. Earth-bound astronomers collect and study the brief, ...

The exploding gummy bear experiment showed students what happens when a gummy bear’s sugar reacts with molten potassium ...