A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

This explosion may have vanished the Clovis culture from the archaeological record in North America, according to a study ...

A cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours: this is the unusual spectacle recently observed by astronomers. Named GRB 250702B ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

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

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...