A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

One such superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational ...

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In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

This artist’s illustration depicts a proposed event called a superkilonova. A massive star first erupts as a supernova, forming elements such as carbon and iron. Later, two neutron stars emerge, with ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

Astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen cosmic explosion that effectively combines a supernova with a kilonova—the blast that results when two dead, dense stars collide. When massive stars ...