In a massive explosion of a black hole ripping apart a star, a dense gas cocoon was found surrounding the explosion, ...

Upon impact, it unleashed a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm, as confirmed by Noaa's Space Weather Prediction Center.

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly 13,000 years ago, killing off mammoths and mastodons and wiping out one of the ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Astronomers have released a rare time-lapse video showing the violent expansion of a dead star over two decades. The footage ...