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 ...

Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest companions, continues to astonish astronomers with its ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

Scientists analysing dark energy say the universe’s expansion may be slowing, raising the possibility gravity could ...

A star exploded at the dawn of time, and the James Webb Space Telescope just caught the moment the light finally reached us.

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...