Kilonova? More like killer-nova. Violent star collisions, called a kilonova, could devastate our planet due to a lethal spew of radiation — namely gamma rays, cosmic rays and x-rays — that are emitted ...

Analyzing data from GW170817, the first kilonova ever discovered, scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discerned what would happen if an explosion like that ever occurred in our ...

New research describes how a kilonova explosion triggered by colliding neutron stars could eradicate life on Earth for thousands of years. Thankfully, the odds are incredibly low. Scientists have ...

Discover what happens during a solar flare: sun eruptions, coronal mass ejection impacts, and space weather effects on Earth ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a massive explosion from a star outside our solar system, specifically a ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...