Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

The Universe isn’t always kind to life, with countless ways in which Earth could be destroyed, though some scenarios are more ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth's nearest star produces its most ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...