An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists ...
A revolutionary rapid-response system has allowed astronomers to observe a gamma-ray burst at millimeter and submillimeter ...
Some of the first supernovae might have looked remarkably like this one, which was produced by a chemically simple star.
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe galaxy Messier 83 (M83) spotted the unexpected explosive ...
Astronomers studying gravitational waves have found statistical evidence for a long-predicted class of stellar explosion so powerful it can tear apart the cores of the most massive stars in the ...
A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists explore how and why things go boom. Reading time 3 minutes Explosions are ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support a $700,000 ...