The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. Stream Los ...
Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to learn more about mysterious blasts of high-energy called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ...
Hidden in the Pacific, two very different volcanoes are forcing scientists to rethink what counts as “biggest.” Tamu Massif, ...
Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away. At the center of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, there is a supermassive black ...
Artist's rendition of GRB 250702B's ultra-relativistic jet (moving at nearly the speed of light) escaping from its dusty, massive host galaxy. Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
From industrial safety and Mach-speed propulsions to the birth of diamonds and the death of stars, Texas A&M’s colossal detonation facility turns raw explosions into breakthrough discoveries.