A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...

CNN — Some of the strongest explosions that occur in the universe are gamma-ray bursts. They're quick, incredibly powerful and happen about once a day as the light from some distant cataclysm reaches ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS Light from a dead star exploded ten billion years ago, yet it reached Earth not once, but several times, ...

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

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star exploded while getting ripped apart by a black hole. Astronomers identified ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they supposedly formed about 14 ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away.

This artist’s concept depicts GRB 250702B (left of center) erupting within its host galaxy. This powerful explosion, first detected on July 2, blasted out narrow jets of particles at nearly the speed ...