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

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

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

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

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

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying a star.

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Discover the fascinating phenomenon of superkilonova, a rare cosmic explosion resulting from neutron star collisions, producing heavy elements.

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