The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

The universe may have staged a cosmic double act, an explosion within an explosion, hinting at a new way the heaviest ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...

A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day ...

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 ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

(CNN) — For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as ...

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 ...

A rare astronomical sight is unfolding in the southern sky. Two exploding stars are shining so brightly that both can be viewed with the naked eye. It’s hard to predict how long these “fascinating ...

(Phys.org) —A team led by the University of Warwick has pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes ...