From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

The Survey was conducted to get a better understanding of the mechanisms that drive the speeding up expansion of the universe ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Astronomers used to rely on chance to catch a glimpse of fleeting explosions in space. A fresh approach to watching these ...

What if there are other universes, just like ours? With an infinite number of Earths? With uncountable versions of you? And ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Astronomers are finally catching a star in the act of dying, not as a static before-and-after snapshot but as a live, ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...