Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Gravitational wave observatories have been studying black holes that are in the right range to be the source of these LFBOTs.

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our ...

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A new study available via arXiv, sheds light on the enigmatic phenomenon ofLuminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs).

New research reveals unusual cosmic bursts known as 'luminous fast blue optical transients' aren't what astronomers initially ...