The cosmos has a way of rewriting its own rulebook, and a single blast of high-energy light has just forced astronomers back ...
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...
Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...
"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...