A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The enjoyably over-the-top second series of post-apocalyptic video game adaptation Fallout offers gory confirmation that ...

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Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array report the first radio detection of a rare Type Ibn supernova, revealing how a massive star lost helium-rich material in the years before its explosion ...

Directed by Eric Lin, this downbeat, superbly acted drama presents a family in crisis and a worried mother who contemplates ...

A star system in our own galactic neighborhood is poised to put on a show so bright it could briefly rival the planets and ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly while others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand ...