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A never-before-seen ‘chirp’ in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the engine powering some of the brightest supernovae in the Universe.

According to an analysis of the unprecedented signal, a superluminous supernova…

The universe’s brightest supernovae are turbocharged by newborn magnetars

From orbit, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have captured striking images of rare luminous flashes appearing high above Earth’s storms. These glowing structures known as red sprites and other transient luminous events…

A seemingly dull rectangular stone, used as part of a foundation for an old barn in a Czech garden, is actually half of a rare Bronze Age mold used to make spearheads, a new study finds.

The almost 9-inch-long (23 centimeters) mold, carved into…

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One of the largest known chunks put a soccer-ball-sized hole…

FDA declines to approve drug touted by Trump as a treatment for autism

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans.

Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted…

Astronomers have detected a neutron star collision in an unexpected place, deep within a tiny, faint galaxy. Located about 4.7 billion light-years away, this collision occurred within a vast gas stream stretching an incredible 600,000…

The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour spectacular in which it shot fountains of lava some 1,300 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The eruption generated “significant heat…