You've heard of how mighty supernovas are, or of the ungodly amounts of energy released by gamma ray bursts. But astronomers ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

Astrophysicists have just discovered when a particular class of galaxies, Lyman Alpha Emitters, experienced their first major ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

For the first time, they’ve found rare forms of methanol, a simple type of alcohol, in a disk of gas and dust where planets ...

Aside from being the most powerful known explosions in the universe, ENTs can help astronomers learn more about monster black holes in faraway galaxies. That's because the incredible brightness of ...

Astronomers detected both X-ray and radio pulses from a single mysterious space object, known as ASKAP J1832-0911, every 44 ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s ...