The Lyrids are back! Here's where to look and how to spot these shooting stars.

NORFOLK, Va. — Have you ever looked up at a “shooting star” and wondered what you’re actually seeing? The terms meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid all describe the same object, but at different stages ...

Catch the Lyrid meteor shower 2026 at its peak on April 22.

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...

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An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

There was a poetic sense of foreshadowing on the morning of Cooper Flagg's most historic scoring performance of his basketball career. The Mavericks rookie casually knocked down a turnaround sidestep ...

Part of testing is pushing components way past their limits, so it's entirely possible that the team predicted a fiery end.

“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos. By Adam Becker Adam Becker is the author, most recently, of “More ...

New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies ...