A strange double flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a long‑theorized kind of ...
Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
This supernova is one for the record books. A mammoth star explosion known as SN2016aps, which occurred in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years from Earth, is the brightest supernova ever seen, a ...