When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...

T his time last year, astrophiles were gearing up for a "once-in-a-lifetime" spectacle—only it never happened. The celestial ...

A look back at all of the spectacular tests — and failures — that have punctuated SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ...

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Three police officers sustained injuries following a landmine explosion along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Road, in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Islamic State West Africa Province ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has charged four people in connection with the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed in a hyperbaric chamber explosion in Troy, Michigan. The four were ...

Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility. Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak ...

CBS Detroit reports that Thomas Cooper was in the chamber when it exploded on January 31, 2025. The boy’s mother was also in the room at the time and was injured in the explosion. The Troy ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...