A reactor at the nuclear plant melted down in 1986, releasing smoke and causing thousands of deaths from radiation.

A new class of X-ray explosions, 'millinovas,' has been identified, with bright emissions 100 times the Sun's output ...

NASA's Chandra and JWST reveal NGC 602, a stunning 'cosmic Christmas wreath' 200,000 light-years away, offering insights into ...

NASA has unveiled a truly stellar gift: a new image of the star cluster NGC 602, located 200,000 light-years from Earth. This ...

"These X-rays are powered by winds flowing from the young, massive stars that are sprinkled throughout the cluster," NASA ...

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Skywatchers across the United States witnessed a total solar eclipse, SpaceX caught a giant rocket out of mid-air with a pair ...

"I think of JuMBOs as a cross between stars and brown dwarfs - they would have been like stars had it not been for the radiation from the more massive stars, which has sculpted them to be more like ...

The JWST data highlights the ring-like outline of the “wreath” while the Chandra X-ray observations (highlighted in red) ...

Perplexing data in the early 2000s raised questions about how planetary formation began in the universe, and new data from ...

“Blackbody radiation,” as physicists call it, is the common pattern of light that emanates ... In the afterglow of Thanksgiving — a relatively new holiday, in cosmic terms — I invite you into this ...

NASA’s probe will enter the star’s atmosphere on Christmas Eve, making the closest pass ever of the Sun’s surface, to try to ...