Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to learn more about mysterious blasts of high-energy called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ...

People have been blowing things up ever since they discovered they could. From the earliest lightning-wrought flames of forest fires to the invention of gunpowder and the advent of nuclear power, ...

The blast happened at a facility owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. Local authorities said no survivors have been found.

When black holes emerge out of hiding to feast on their prey and some type of matter is sucked into their celestial maw, they begin to glow brightly. The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear transients,” ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. The ...