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

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

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

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

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

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

SpaceX reportedly informed the FAA about the mishap after the agency had already activated debris response areas.

Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

"The discovery of GOTO0650 is really the pinnacle of two years of consistent hard work from our volunteers." Astronomers have teamed up with citizen scientists to discover a brand-new exploding star ...

The world's telescopes descended on the aftermath of the cosmic explosion to try to work out what it had originated from - ...

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...

Stuck on a slow bus in Sofia, Bulgaria, Svetoslav Alexandrov passed the time using a mobile app to compare before-and-after images taken of space. The game, part of a citizen science project, was to ...