With 'Project Hail Mary' opening in theaters, here are several essential films that explore the strange, high-stakes experience of being stranded in outer space.

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

An emergency diesel generator malfunction caused an explosion that injured two people outside a Midtown parking garage Thursday evening, according to FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Abbamonte. Abbamonte said ...

The Who concert disaster took place in December 1979 in Cincinnati, Ohio, when a crowd surge before the show killed 11 fans.