A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

CNN — Some of the strongest explosions that occur in the universe are gamma-ray bursts. They're quick, incredibly powerful and happen about once a day as the light from some distant cataclysm reaches ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS Light from a dead star exploded ten billion years ago, yet it reached Earth not once, but several times, ...

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

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they supposedly formed about 14 ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star exploded while getting ripped apart by a black hole. Astronomers identified ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova – the explosive death of a massive star – at ...