Portugal has entered the small group of countries with experimental capability in hypersonic research ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

The stellar corpse is spewing star stuff, which is heating and compressing surrounding gas, resulting in a multicolored ...

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a so-called bow shock ahead of them akin to a curved ridge of ...

Astronomers from Durham University have discovered a never-before-seen shock wave around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, challenging existing ...