Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf, the remnant core of a dead star creating shockwaves as it moves through space. The ...

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, ...

This may come as a shock, if you're moving fast enough. The shock being shock waves. A balloon's 'pop' is shock waves generated by exploded bits of the balloon moving faster than the speed of sound.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have created a miniature version of supernova shock waves in a lab here on Earth to ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Sandia National Laboratories physicists Mark Boslough and Dave Crawford predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed ...

Hypersonic flow and shock wave dynamics represent a critical domain in aerospace science, where the physics of high-speed fluid motion are explored under extreme thermodynamic and chemical conditions.

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave.