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

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

Astronomers may have identified the first-ever superkilonova, a massive cosmic explosion, through a gravitational wave signal ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line between a ...

The post New Theory Suggests That A Mysterious Event First Recorded In 2019 May Have Been The Result Of A Wormhole From ...

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

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Researchers are studying a rare double star explosion that could change how we understand space events. Astronomers may have seen a space event that has never been clearly confirmed before. It is ...

Columbia Professor Brian Metzger helped other astronomers interpret their observations of the unexpected stellar event.