A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The next time you use your phone, you should raise your eyes to the skies and say thanks to ... a dying star. More specifically, you should thank the explosions that happen on a class of celestial ...

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole. When you purchase through links ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a major cosmological mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they knew. In 2021, a star about 2.2 billion light-years away ended its life in ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...