Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA claims astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe. The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

Astronomers say one of the universe’s largest stars has dramatically changed since 2014, possibly entering a rare final phase that could end in a spectacular supernova explosion.

The universe is filled with explosions, collisions, and violent events. But one phenomenon releases more energy than anything else known. In just moments, it can outshine entire galaxies and reshape ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...