An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

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

Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...