A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Something extraordinary happened near the end of the last Ice Age, when mammoths still roamed and early hunter gatherers were ...

A cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours: this is the unusual spectacle recently observed by astronomers. Named GRB 250702B ...

Astronomers analyzed AT 2024wpp, the brightest LFBOT observed, confirming a black hole shredded a companion star, producing high-energy blue, ultraviolet, X-ray, and radio emissions.

For Earth to be born, our solar system needed certain isotopes which could only be formed by supernovae. But, shouldn't such ...

New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.

This study could transform our understanding of the future of the universe and raise the possibility that the universe may ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

A star exploded at the dawn of time, and the James Webb Space Telescope just caught the moment the light finally reached us.