Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or "magnetar" for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death ...

Two foreign tankers carrying Iraqi oil were engulfed in flames near Umm Qasr Port, Iraq, after being hit by projectiles, according to news reports citing officials.Footage sent to Storyful by a ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

A Sunday explosion causing minor damage to the U.S. Embassy in Oslo is being investigated by Norwegian police.   Authorities said they received a report about the explosion at around ...

A deep-space photo of the Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini shows a brain-like structure, capturing the supernova remnant IC 443 and surrounding interstellar gas and stars.

An explosion sounded Thursday and was followed by what appeared to be interceptions in the sky, an Associated Press journalist in Doha, Qatar's capital, witnessed.

A propane tank explosion caused a fire to a vacant home in Canton, believed to have been ignited by squatters using the tank as a makeshift heat source.

In 2006, France entered a downward spiral after losing the World Cup final. But after a journey of resilience, they left ...

Pope Leo XIV said Sunday he was “profoundly concerned” about the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and urged both sides to “stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.” ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...