A ruptured gas line wasn't enough to explain the 1988 disaster. The metal drums told the real story.

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has thinned, exposing two tightly bound stars — and clumps of gas hurtling away at ...

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Astronomers have detected the magnetic signature surrounding a gamma-ray burst afterglow for the first time, opening a new way to study the extreme physics behind these cosmic explosions. The ...