Few spectacles in space are as phenomenal as supernovae, but a "superkilonova" may give them a run for their money. This type of cosmic outburst is thought to arise when a supernova cascades into a ...

A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars die. The event, linked to an extreme gamma-ray outburst ...

Teams of astronomers from several institutions have discovered a strange cosmic firework in deep space that brightened the ...

For nearly a decade, scientists have been trying to understand a set of strange blue flashes coming from deep space. These ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could reveal millions of hidden neutron stars in the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing.

Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...

LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...