A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

It’s ok, Darth Vader hasn’t got our humble planet in his sights! No this Death Star is a binary system where both stars are ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

Sharing his own personal behind the scenes photos from the set of Captain America 4, the Top Gun: Maverick cast member had a ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

Decades of W.M. Keck Observatory research on the famed Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” system has taken a new turn, revealing more mystery but reducing concerns about its potential as the “Death Star.” ...

A new study has shed light on the orbital alignment of the well-known Wolf-Rayet 104 (WR 104) system, long considered a potential threat due to its speculated gamma-ray burst (GRB) risk. Observations ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the stunning image of Cartwheel Galaxy. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, ...

A cubesat, a type of small satellite in the shape of a cube with 10-centimetre-long edges, GRBAlpha was designed as ...

New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...