This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, ...

When Richard Owen rallied the British Museum trustees to create a separate building for their ever-growing catalogue of the natural world 150 years ago, his vision was a ‘cathedral to nature’ – and ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

New research links supernova events to sudden Earth cooling episodes and ozone depletion, revealed by carbon-14 spikes in ...