For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...
Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...
The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.