NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of ...
Through the years since it was first launched, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning photographs of the Cassiopeia ...
A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the most luminous objects in its neighborhood, has quietly disappeared. Over ...
Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or "magnetar" for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death of a massive star, ...
LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...
Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image released on March 11, 2026. Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully/Handout via ...
This artist's animation shows a hypothe sized event known as a superkilonova . Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two ...
A rare supernova appeared five times in the sky, giving scientists a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding ...
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 ...
Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...
Scientists have uncovered rare traces of a radioactive iron isotope buried deep inside Antarctic ice, offering new evidence ...