The freaky phenomenon, known as a cannibal coronal mass ejection (CME), occurred after two solar eruptions decided to merge ...

Yet, the only remaining evidence of the extreme cosmic event — which scientists ... typically from a supernova explosion or giant solar flare, reacts with nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

This once-in-a-lifetime star explosion is getting closer to happening, allowing Texans to see this cosmic event with the ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

These outbursts' light output didn't resemble any previous cosmic explosion. Meet the "millinovas ... in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), two satellite ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers just observed an explosion in space that might be caused by a completely new kind of event, never seen before. The Chandra X-ray Space Telescope spotted ...

However, once the explosion occurs, this colossal cosmic event will appear as bright as the North Star. If you miss it, the next detonation of this mighty star system is expected around 2014.

The collision of two neutron stars has created the smallest black hole yet ... see the micro-physics in this remote explosion ...