Astronomers have uncovered a new extreme in the universe's catalog of violent phenomena — a class of cosmic explosions so powerful that they rank among the most energetic events since the Big Bang.

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. Stream Los ...

An unlucky massive star approaches a supermassive black hole. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most ...

How did we get here? Humanity, life on Earth, our planet itself—how did everything in the universe come into being? Well, as far as we know, it all started with the Big Bang. But while the Big Bang ...