For nearly a decade, scientists have been trying to understand a set of strange blue flashes coming from deep space. These ...

Rare blue cosmic explosions, called LFBOTs, could originate from the collision between a black hole or neutron star and a ...

Teams of astronomers from several institutions have discovered a strange cosmic firework in deep space that brightened the region not just once but twice.

Have you ever had a childhood memory suddenly go from "cool story" to "wait, that’s actually terrifying"? That’s the vibe we’re going for today. We’re taking things you’ve always taken for granted and ...

LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...

Now, they have a theory as to what might be causing the flash ...

An artist's impression of gravitational waves (red and blue) emitted by a merging pair of black holes, inside a cloud of dark ...

Credit: X-ray, Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared, Webb: NASA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major. Astronomers have made an exciting discovery that could change how we understand some of the ...

An international team studying data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova. The researchers say it likely received its power-up ...

Dark matter gravitational waves may finally expose invisible matter through black hole collisions and new cosmic signals.

NASA’s Roman Telescope could finally expose the Milky Way’s hidden population of invisible neutron stars. Astronomers believe ...

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?