A SpaceX rocket exploded on Wednesday night (June 18) in Texas during a stationary fire test ahead of an upcoming flight. The space company noted the Starship "experienced a major anomaly” at their ...

Imagine a star, more than three times the mass of our Sun, straying too close to a supermassive black hole. Instead of quietly fading, it’s torn apart, and what follows is one of the most powerful ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...

An unlucky massive star approaches a supermassive black hole. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most ...

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away. At the center of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, there is a supermassive black ...