CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA claims astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe. The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, which occurred 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, ...

Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — At the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, this week is dedicated to remembrance — honoring the heroes lost in the pursuit of space exploration. Forty years ago, the world ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a 21-year-old space telescope that has tracked gamma-ray bursts and cosmic explosions since 2004, is losing altitude fast enough that the agency has suspended ...

Called StarBurst, the spacecraft is designed to detect the short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) generated by neutron star mergers, cataclysmic cosmic events that not only form black holes, but also give rise ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.

This week's letter to the editor of the Herald Times Reporter draws parallels between failures in the Challenger explosion and the Epstein affair.