"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star explodes twice in violently different ways. Their analysis of a series of ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Jailbreaking a video game console is a big deal: Once hackers can do it, they can push their hardware to perform actions it wasn't originally programmed for. The latest generation of video game ...

A touching tribute to NYC — and the nation — has made its way onto the White House Historical Association’s new ...

A woman who accidentally broke a decades-old Christmas bauble realized there had been something magical hidden away inside it for all those years. Ashley Gutierrez Siler, 40, lives in Augusta, Georgia ...

Theologians, historians and astronomers have debated the Biblical story for centuries. "The Adoration of the Magi" by Guiseppe Chiari (1654-1727). The Virgin Mary, seated on the left and turned to the ...

It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...