Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Astronomers have identified a strange and fast-fading cosmic event that appears to defy existing categories of known astronomical explosions. Detected by China's Einstein Probe space telescope, the ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading ...

China's Einstein Probe has spotted a cosmic explosion from a mysterious source that's unlike anything seen before. The burst was made up of two X-ray flares, about 200 seconds apart, that likely came ...

Debris is still raining down on Earth more than 100 million years after the giant cosmic explosion that created it. A study published this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team reached ...