The largest explosion NASA has seen since the Big Bang occurred just now, but it began ages ago. It could possibly harm the ...

This episode explores the Big Bang not as a location, but as an expansion of space itself. Historically, we’ve tried to ...

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Scientists have finally gathered direct proof of how the universe forges its heaviest elements, a process that has remained a ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Near the center of the Milky Way are enormous filaments of radio energy that sometimes look like bones, and one in particular ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...