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

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

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

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

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

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The insides of a star are on full display thanks to an explosion. New research published this month in Nature is revealing the details of a star’s core. “This is the first time we have ...

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