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The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

A man severely injured his hand when a device detonated after he picked it up in the 1100 block of South Emporia, a ...

For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

One person is dead after a U-Haul truck explosion early Saturday morning, authorities said. The blast happened around 7:15 a.m. in the parking lot of an Old Navy store in Lewiston, Idaho, just across ...

Six people were hospitalized in California following a devastating home explosion caught on video. Footage from a doorbell camera at a home near Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area showed a property ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A gas explosion set off a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and shaking nearby houses. Six ...