One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported sightings of a supernova that exploded when the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

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 ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...