Astronomers missed a space explosion as powerful as a billion suns — until they spotted its echo

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
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Rare 'daytime fireball' creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton smeteor explodes above eastern US

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that ...
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Hubble reveals the Crab Nebula is still exploding after 1,000 years, exposing a rare real-time view of cosmic expansion

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in 1054, is still rapidly expanding, offering rare, direct evidence that the ...

Exploding Comet Is Spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...
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The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most violent flashes — capable of releasing more energy in a fraction of a second than ...
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Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast

One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of ...

Where Earth’s gold really came from and how space explosions keep creating gold across the universe

Gold was not born on our planet Earth; it was forged in a violent ‘cosmic forge’ far beyond our solar system. This means that ...
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Researchers first “heard” a distant cosmic explosion — They turned a telescope and captured how the Moon may have formed

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...
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Astronomers witness colossal supernova explosion create one of the most magnetic stars in the universe for the first time

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.