Watch the moment a star explodes in a supernova — something scientists have never directly witnessed like this before. The ...

The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, known as IXPE, has produced the first spatially resolved polarization maps of the supernova remnant RCW 86, the shell of debris left by what is likely the ...

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A supernova witnessed nearly 2,000 years ago is back in focus as NASA’s powerful X-ray telescope uncovers a hidden cosmic ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

New Hubble images show the Crab Nebula is still expanding and evolving nearly 1,000 years after its original supernova ...

It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole—that was so ...

It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...