When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...

The soil covering the moon may contain a remarkable record of ancient stars that exploded millions of years ago. Scientists ...

In a bid to predict the threat to satellites from space debris, the European Space Agency is teaming up with a pair of physicists who spend their time smashing eggshells. This improbable collaboration ...

Space could be littered with cement dust spewed out by supernovae, which would sove a lingering mystery about missing oxygen in interstellar gas EXPLODING stars act like cosmic cement mixers, ...

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock may have struck ...

While supernovae mark the terminal destruction of a star, novae operate on a different mechanism and can repeat. A nova occurs when a white dwarf, the dense remnant core of a dead star, siphons ...