The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

A massive explosion at the Spegazzini Industrial Park in Ezeiza sent shockwaves through nearby neighborhoods, shattering ...

When Japanese aircraft swept over northern Australia, no one in Darwin expected the scale of destruction that followed. Amid ...

Powerful explosions tore through an industrial area south of Buenos Aires on Friday night, igniting a fire and sending at ...

About 100 people were evacuated from a shopping centre in Wimbledon, London, after a van exploded in an underground car park, ...

On the morning of April 16, 1947, a small fire began aboard the WWII-era cargo ship, the SS Grandcamp, docked in the port of ...

A shopping centre in Wimbledon, London, was evacuated after an explosion in an underground car park resulted in a man being ...

A massive explosion erupted at a factory in the Greater Buenos Aires Region in Argentina, on Friday, November 14, sending tall columns of smoke into the night sky.X user @PaulaLaws22 captured the ...

Thanks to observations using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers have ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.