From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

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The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is one part of McAuliffe's legacy. Jeanne Gerulskis, former executive director of the ...

Explore the intriguing concept that the universe is still in its infancy. This video delves into the idea of cosmic ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.

The joint NOvA-T2K analysis achieved unprecedented precision in measuring neutrino mass, a key step toward understanding ...

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