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." ...

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

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 most extreme fireworks in the universe are supposed to follow rules. Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest explosions known, ...

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

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.

Discover the fascinating phenomenon of superkilonova, a rare cosmic explosion resulting from neutron star collisions, producing heavy elements.

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

"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 ...

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 ...