On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

Mira A is in the late stages of its life, a red giant swelling and losing mass as it prepares to fade into a white dwarf. While stars of this type routinely shed material, the sheer scale and symmetry ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

University of Warwick astronomers have helped discover a beautiful yet mysterious shock wave around a dead star - a completely unexpected discovery. Gas and dust flowing from stars can clash with a ...

The never-before-seen phenomenon has been discovered around a white dwarf, named RXJ0528+2838, the remnant of a low-mass star, around 730 light years from Earth. RXJ0528+2838 is being orbited by a ...

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Early Snapshot of Supernova Shock Wave Using ESO’s VLT ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured an unprecedented early snapshot of supernova SN 2024ggi, revealing an ...

Johnson & Johnson shocked the medtech industry early last year when it announced it would acquire Shockwave Medical, a specialist in the intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) market. Shockwave had a huge ...

Simon Stevenson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He works for Swinburne University of Technology. He is a member of OzGrav and the LIGO Scientific collaboration. Ten years ago, ...

From 1992–2017, the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) was used to captured radio imagery of Supernova 1987A. Graduate student Yvette Cendes of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics ...

Tom is a writer and music producer who is passionate about video games. He has been writing professionally for over two years. Shockwave is a cold, calculating scientist from Cybertron, ranking among ...