Scientists have made an extraordinary discovery in deep space, identifying the most powerful explosions ever observed in the ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...

"There are trillions of stars in the universe, and about every second ... It has classified over 10,000 cosmic explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the feeding frenzies of vampire ...

Ever since our universe exploded into being some 13.8 billion years ago, it has continued to expand. Stars and galaxies are continually moving apart — so fast that even if you were to take off ...

Is the universe exploding—expanding swiftly into the uttermost reaches of space? Scientists have been puzzling over the startling speculation ever since the 1920s, when Mount Wilson Astronomers ...

after the exploding star had been spotted already—we were able to measure their travel time, and therefore how much the universe had grown while the image was in transit. This gave us a ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study. Magnetar flares, colossal ...

a theory of the expansion of the universe, yet later shown to have begun with the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. But, at least in astronomy, 1924 was the year that the universe exploded.

In two new papers led by my colleague Patrick Kelly at the University of Minnesota, we have successfully used a new technique – involving light from an exploding star that arrived at Earth via ...

But, at least in astronomy, 1924 was the year that the universe exploded. Martin Connors has received funding from NSERC.