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

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to learn more about mysterious blasts of high-energy called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ...

NASA has released its longest-ever time-lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, capturing the expanding remains of Keplers ...

A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe work. Instead of behaving like a textbook blast, this eruption stayed ...

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a blast detected in July set a new record by firing energetic jets for ...