Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

Portal Space Systems says that a rapid-maneuverability space vehicle called Starburst will leverage technologies it's already ...

Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

How did the extremely massive stars (EMS) in the early universe help form the oldest star clusters? This is what a recent ...

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the use of standard candles, celestial events of the same luminosity ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...