Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

For the first time, scientists captured a supernova just hours after it began. This rare moment revealed the true shape of the explosion, something never seen before. The data could finally explain ...

Scientists have uncovered rare traces of a radioactive iron isotope buried deep inside Antarctic ice, offering new evidence ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here's how they plan to crack the case.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Neutron stars are the densely compact cores remaining as one possible result of a supernova. These star remnants are ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful events that can happen in the Universe - we are talking, after all, about a star exploding – and because of that, they have always been actively researched by ...