A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

A new breakthrough study fromRutgers University is offering insights into one of the universe’s most extraordinary ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Astronomers detected millisecond pulsations in a gamma-ray burst, confirming that newborn magnetars can power the universe's most extreme explosions. The burst, catalogued as GRB 230307A, erupted on ...

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...