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

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

George Duvall, 82, whose groundbreaking work advanced scientists’ understanding of shock-wave physics, died Jan. 6 of unspecified causes. Duvall pioneered the study of shock-wave propagation in solids ...

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 ...

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.

Physicists predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed into the far side of Jupiter in 1994. And sure enough, the plume produced by the ...

Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, ...

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

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.