TEMPE, Ariz. ñ An international team of astronomers today is reporting on a discovery of a star exploding inside another star. The discovery is helping astronomers learn more about the structure of a ...

Having a light bulb explode in your home can be quite startling. You're just sitting on your couch, watching TV, and all of a sudden, you hear a loud boom and find that you'll be needing to clean up a ...

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A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are ...

When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can also come ...