A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

Scientists observed a 'perfect' explosion 140 million light years from Earth, which formed a completely symmetrical sphere 'that makes no sense.' The explosion, known as kilonovae, stemmed from two ...

That's all for our coverage on SpaceX's Starship test launch. The rocket successfully launched off the ground but the test flight ended minutes later. Nevertheless, Elon Musk, the founder and chief ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white ...

02:22, Fri, May 12, 2023 Updated: 05:13, Fri, May 12, 2023 Astronomers have uncovered the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova ...

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Thanks to observations using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have managed to capture one of the shortest phases of a supernova's life — the ...

The eruption of the Tonga volcano in January has been confirmed as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation. It was far bigger than any 20th Century volcanic ...

While the geology of Yellowstone National Park is most notorious for its potential to produce large “supereruptions”, far more common are smaller, violent hydrothermal explosions. Caused when ...