Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Space scientists have released jaw-dropping scenes capturing a star’s violent death — recorded over more than two and a half decades.

It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

A new video provides a front-row seat to a cosmic drama that has been playing out for centuries. Since 1604, when astronomers ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

The expansion of Kepler's Supernova Remnant over the past 25 years is summed up in 40 seconds in a new video released by NASA ...

But machinery used on the moon must function in low gravity, a vacuum and amid abrasive lunar dust. It must also survive the two-week lunar night of electronics-killing temperatures that plunge to ...