For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge techniques, a team of scientists has finally been able to observe these cosmic ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

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

Astronomers have spotted an extraordinarily long-lived cosmic explosion lasting more than seven hours, breaking the record as ...

Astronomers tracked a gamma-ray burst lasting over 7 hours, unseen in visible light, from a dusty galaxy 8 billion light-years away, challenging existing models and raising new questions for science.

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