Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

European astronomers have investigated a galaxy cluster designated CIZA J2242.8+5301, dubbed the Sausage cluster. The ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

Astronomers unveiled the James Webb Space Telescope's largest view yet of the early universe in a richly detailed catalog of ...

Astronomers have found that planet mass is about 17% of the mass of Jupiter, or about 53 times the mass of the Earth. The ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

Astronomers discovered a mysterious object zooming through the Milky Way at an unbelievable speed! It’s moving so fast that it might even escape our galaxy entirely. Some scientists think it could be ...

Learn more about how astronomers have observed an unprecedented cosmic explosion that has the potential to transform the ...

Is there life out there? Another method should make it possible to find habitable planets. A super-Earth in the habitable ...