A flash of blue light illuminated New York City’s skyline Thursday night after a transformer exploded at a utility company’s substation Astoria, Queens. Photo: Bloomberg ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts originate from either the merger of two neutron stars or the collapse of a ...