The wave has been blasting through space at near-light-speed for 200 million years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What happens ...

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been caused by a bright meteor fireball, local weather officials say. At 11:08 p.m., ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For the past few months, Bob O’Dell has been mapping the winds blowing in the Orion Nebula, the closest stellar nursery similar to the one in which the sun was born. New data from ...

For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the cosmic web — the enormous tangle of galaxies, gas and dark matter that fills the observable universe.

With the threat of nuclear war creeping back into our minds since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last February, many people are worried about where would be best to hide from a nuclear blast. A new ...

Scientists used a high-speed camera to record the moment the cork pops. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Popping open a bottle of ...

Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely seen type of nebula that occurs when hot gas ejected by a ...

What happens when two of the largest objects in the universe collide? Simple, says a new study: They create one of the largest shock waves in the universe. Located about 730 million light-years from ...