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." ...

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.

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.

The most extreme fireworks in the universe are supposed to follow rules. Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest explosions known, ...

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

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

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

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

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