Astronomers missed a space explosion as powerful as a billion suns — until they spotted its echo

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
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Rare 'daytime fireball' creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton smeteor explodes above eastern US

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that ...

NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
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Researchers first “heard” a distant cosmic explosion — They turned a telescope and captured how the Moon may have formed

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...
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Japan's private Space One Kairos rocket explodes after launch failure during 3rd test flight

Kairos failed on Wednesday (March 4), as it did on its first two launches. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...
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OTD in space – February 15: Meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk, Russia

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...