A dozen luminous blue outbursts were thought to be unusual supernovae. A new outburst, the brightest yet, suggests it's ...

Far from our solar system, brief explosions of electric-blue light are flaring in distant galaxies, outshining entire star ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

Gravitational wave observatories have been studying black holes that are in the right range to be the source of these LFBOTs. So far, though, no black hole collision has been seen with light-based ...

Blue flashes form in the same way as green flashes. However, the former is harder to spot because air molecules and aerosols scatter blue light, according to Spaceweather.com. When the atmosphere is ...

For nearly a decade, some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe have been hiding in plain sight as brief, bright ...

Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...

Mysterious blue flashes were seen in the sky above a Moroccan city as a deadly earthquake, that has so far claimed thousands of lives in the country, struck. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck southwest ...

A strange blue shimmer over rural Aomori Prefecture left residents confused and uneasy on Wednesday night and within minutes, the region was shaken by a massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake, India Today ...