See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A bizarre series of energetic flares in deep space may have been caused ...

This composite image features X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data of the luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp. The transient is the bright spot at the upper ...

A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An extraordinarily bright explosion has been detected in an unexpected ...

Presently, LFBOTs are detected once per year, as per NASA. An extraordinarily bright explosion detected in an unexpected place by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has scientists confused. According to a ...

What is hundreds of billions of times more powerful than the Sun, flashes on repeat with intense bursts of light, and verges on defying the laws of physics? No, it’s not your neighbors’ holiday lights ...

A colossal cosmic cataclysm exploding with the intensity of an entire galaxy of stars has gobsmacked astronomers, who say the detonations of hot, blue-white light upend our understanding of how the ...