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 ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

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

An exploding tree claim has gone viral as the U.S. brace for an Arctic blast that will send temperatures plunging, triggering ...

“EXPLODING TREES are possible in the Midwest and Northern Plains on Friday and Saturday, as temperatures are forecasted to ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...