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

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

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

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.

The most extreme fireworks in the universe are supposed to follow rules. Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest explosions known, are neatly sorted into categories, each tied to a familiar kind of cosmic ...

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

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

Astronomers announce evidence of a rare and unprecedented cosmic event that might represent a new type of violent explosions in the universe. The explosion is known as the 'Superkilonova.' ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a blast detected in July set a new record by firing energetic jets for ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Astronomers detected millisecond pulsations in a gamma-ray burst, confirming that newborn magnetars can power the universe's most extreme explosions. The burst, catalogued as GRB 230307A, erupted on ...