The universe hosts events so powerful that they dwarf anything humans can imagine. From magnetar flares and neutron star ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

When the first gravitational wave (GW) was detected back in 2015, scientists said they had opened a new window into the Universe. While most of astronomy is based on detecting electromagnetic energy, ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies ...

The Perseus Cluster is a massive galaxy cluster located in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the largest structures in ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

Astronomers report that WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, appears to have undergone a striking transformation into a ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

2026 is a big year for SpaceX's Starship, the biggest and most ambitious rocket ever built. The third version of the still-in-development launch vehicle will debut soon (maybe), which will be the ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing through massive astronomy datasets. What began as a class project quickly ...