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

Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...

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

What would really happen if a star exploded close to Earth? A nearby supernova is one of the most powerful events in the ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen — at most — only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical ...

Two judges have resigned from the Miss Universe international beauty pageant, with one making accusations of rigging and mulling a lawsuit as the annual competition nears its end in Bangkok. Omar ...

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 ...