What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

By April 1945, with Japan’s empire collapsing and Okinawa under siege, the Imperial Navy prepared one last desperate strike ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...