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

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...

Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf, the remnant core of a dead star creating shockwaves as it moves through space. The ...

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

The geomagnetic field was active at a moderate level (G1–G2) on January 20. It is expected to return to normal on January 21 ...

New simulations show flickering black hole signals arise from unstable shocks inside accretion discs, revealing how matter ...

What happens if liquefied natural gas (LNG) hits the wall of the cargo tanks in a ship? New research from the team of ...

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

If a collision occurs, scientists estimate it would release energy equivalent to around 6.5 megatons of TNT, making it far more powerful than any previously recorded lunar impact. The strike could ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...