V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving ...

A powerful flare has unleashed a severe solar storm that could cause auroras and satellite disruptions on Earth.

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the birth of the universe ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...

The Exciting Science Show comes to Torch Theatre on February 18, featuring live experiments, volcanoes and family fun this half-term.

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the ...