Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

The cooler, denser plasma appears dark against the raging surface of the sun in this view from a NASA spacecraft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

A series of three powerful flares and associated explosions of solar material out across the Solar System have set Earth ...

Astronomers have solved the decade-long mystery of how a bizarre cosmic object toggles rapidly between "high" and "low" energy states: by launching plasma cannonballs from its orbit. The object in ...

The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the speed ...

It confirms that stars beyond our Solar System can unleash similar violent eruptions, bursts powerful enough to strip entire ...

The enigmatic pulsar J1023 radically changes in brightness every few seconds. Astronomers may finally have an explanation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

“ONE OF THE key questions is—does that seal work? We think it will work, but it may not work,” said Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX, on June 5th, as his company’s Starship rocket was being prepared for ...