A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that ...

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said.

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.

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One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...