The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

Astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen cosmic explosion that effectively combines a supernova with a kilonova—the blast that results when two dead, dense stars collide. When massive stars ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) — the most energetic type of explosion in the universe since the Big Bang — is detected once every day, on average. But what happened on July 2, 2025, was highly unusual: ...

New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.

A new breakthrough study fromRutgers University is offering insights into one of the universe’s most extraordinary phenomena—an enigmatic cosmic explosion that has left scientists in awe. This event, ...

So we all know about the Big Bang, right? The cosmic explosion that created our Universe. Well, as with everything, there is a beginning … and an end.This is the Big Rip, the ultimate fate of our ...