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Nearly 900 years ago, astronomers spotted a strange, bright light in the sky. We finally know what caused it.

The origins of the ancient supernova of A.D. 1181 remained a mystery for 840 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the 12th ...

A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now?

Astronomers might have found the ultradense remnant of an explosion that wracked a nearby galaxy. Supernova 1987A captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2017.Credit...NASA, ESA; R. Kirshner, and M.

A Supernova Resurrected Itself

Recently, astronomers spotted a supernova that was getting brighter after it had started fading away. The star that exploded was part of a binary system where the two stars orbited at a “medium” ...

James Webb spots the oldest supernova on record

The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the cosmic frontier back to a time when the universe was still in its infancy, capturing the light of the most ancient supernova ever seen. By catching a ...

First Ever ‘Double Supernova’ Found In Night Sky — What To Know

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. Astronomers studying the night sky from the Southern Hemisphere have uncovered a supernova — the ...

Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says

"As far as we know, no coordination or deconfliction with existing satellites operating in space was performed, resulting in ...

SpaceX Quietly Removes $40-Per-Month Starlink Plan in the US

The 'Residential 100Mbps' plan seems to have been dropped from Starlink's US site, although it's still available for users in Australia and Canada.

SpaceX plans late-night California rocket launch today. Watch livestream

SpaceX is planning yet another California rocket launch, and you have a variety of options to watch it – if you're willing to ...

Musk's Mars mission adds risk to red-hot SpaceX IPO

Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, ...

SpaceX may go public. What that means for Elon Musk's rocket company

Can you buy SpaceX stock? Several recent reports have suggested that billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company is planning to go ...

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have ...

Space stocks are surging on a colossal SpaceX IPO expected in 2026

Rumblings of a $1.5 trillion valuation for SpaceX may be forcing investors to view currently public space companies as ...

Aliens are probably out there, NASA scientist says—but there’s a dreadful reason they never call

That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech ’s new story, “ Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, ...

A NASA spacecraft is piercing the sun's scorching atmosphere right now

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has repeated its record-breaking speed and flyby distance, entering perihelion for its orbit around the sun on Dec. 13, 2025.

Space travel taxes astronauts' brains. But microbes on the menu could help in unexpected ways

Feeding astronauts on a long mission to Mars goes well beyond ensuring they have enough nutrients and calories to survive their multi-year journey. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

13 Incredible Space Museums in the U.S. Every Traveler Should Visit

From Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Space Center Houston, the best space museums in the U.S. get you up close to rockets, shuttles, and history.

Astronomers capture sudden black hole blast firing ultra fast winds

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and XRISM, astronomers caught the blast unfold in real time, revealing how tangled magnetic fields can rapidly “untwist” and hurl matter into space much like an enormous, cosmic-scale version of the Sun’s coronal mass ejections.

Scientists observe a black hole dragging space and time as it consumes a star

Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

Humans who travel to Mars risk permanent kidney damage

Why it matters: A manned mission to Mars is a long-term goal of the scientific community. However, a new study has presented a significant challenge to this objective: human kidneys may not endure the ...