Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Nova explosions, which were thought until now to be relatively simple, are actually turning out to be very different. An ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

When the city of Boston unveils its Christmas tree each year, it's more than a simple holiday tradition. That's because the ...

Venezuela accused the United States of an "extremely serious military aggression" after explosions rocked the capital Caracas ...

"Nothing that has been written, telegraphed or said can express to you the horror of the disaster of the morning of Dec. 6th, ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.