Teams of astronomers from several institutions have discovered a strange cosmic firework in deep space that brightened the region not just once but twice.

Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars explode and the ...

A brief X-ray flash caught by a Chinese-European space telescope has led astronomers to identify what may be an entirely new class of stellar explosion, one powered by a feeble jet that standard ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

WASHINGTON — A supernova, the explosive death of a star, is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...