Shortly after first light on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky before exploding with an estimated blast yield of up to 500 kilotons of TNT — far more powerful than the ...

A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image courtesy of James Webb Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera.

Heads up stargazers! The September Epsilon Perseids meteor shower peaks predawn on Sept. 9. Here's what you need to know about this annual shower to increase your chances of seeing one of its rare ...

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 40 eyewitness reports describing the same event, most clustered around Texas and Louisiana. Several observers described the object as eerily silent ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri,” it read. “The stars, it seems, have set strict bounds on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sh2-284, which is a nebula formed of two particles jets being beamed away from a massive star ...

Study finds evidence of a possible star explosion 10 million years ago by discovering unusually high levels of cosmic rays in ocean rocks.