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Few spectacles in space are as phenomenal as supernovae, but a "superkilonova" may give them a run for their money. This type of cosmic outburst is thought to arise when a supernova cascades into a ...

Scientists discover a star, HD 254577, that survived a supernova and is now racing through space, revealing how the explosion ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of colliding neutron stars known as a kilonova. Then it brightened again, shifted ...

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After detecting a strange combination of signals in the summer of 2025, astronomers believe they may have captured the first evidence of a unique phenomenon previously theorized, but never observed: a ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...