People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

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Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...

Astronomers have found evidence for a possible first-of-its-kind "superkilonova," or a kilonova spurred by a supernova. Such an event has been hypothesized but never seen.

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Sir Sadiq Khan hailed London’s New Year celebrations as the “greatest in the world” after 100,000 people lined the banks of ...

A dozen luminous blue outbursts were thought to be unusual supernovae. A new outburst, the brightest yet, suggests it's ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

The first winds of west Africa's Harmattan dry season are in the air, and Lagos, the economic capital of the continent's most ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...