Astronomers using data from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and other observatories around the world have discovered ...

This week, the Milky Way may not collide with Andromeda in 5 billion years after all, two of the world’s only freshwater ...

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

Astronomers have captured the largest explosion ever recorded in the Universe since the Big Bang as massive stars get ripped ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only ...

Hinkle used years of observations from UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System with telescopes on Haleakalā on ...

Redditors are shocked after seeing how the Hubble Space Telescope captured 'light echoes' after a star went supernova ...

The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear transients,” are not only more rare than a supernova star explosion ... the biggest explosions since the Big Bang. The three examples the team highlighted ...

If you think about the Big Bang as an explosion, this tiny interval is when the explosion in volume occurred. Protons and neutrons began to form after about a microsecond (10⁻⁶ seconds).

Businesses were forced to close and households were left without power after residents heard a "big bang" and saw smoke ...

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