The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

An 8th-grade astrophotographer from Apple Valley captured a stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, 7,000 light-years away.

A deep-space photo of the Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini shows a brain-like structure, capturing the supernova remnant IC 443 and surrounding interstellar gas and stars.

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

The findings, published on February 12 in Science, are stirring excitement. For the first time, astronomers can trace step by step how some stars vanish into black holes, while others explode in ...

James Hood is a secret rock star. He’s not a household name, but he looks the part and walks the walk—thankfully without ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of subatomic particles with no electric charge (i.e., neutrons). When two ...

Superkilonovalisticexpealidocious: This artist's concept shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which ...