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 ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2024, the ATLAS astronomical survey detected a distant flash of light. It was a supernova, the explosive death of a massive star, located far, far away, roughly a billion light-years away.

Asrtronomers managed to pinpoint which star in the NGC 1637 galaxy turned into a supernova 40 million years ago, they used the Webb telescope.

An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered new evidence about Type II-P supernovae, suggesting that some of these stellar explosions may originate from merged binary stars ...

The Rubin Observatory’s real-time alert system can detect millions of cosmic events per night, from asteroids to supernovae, ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos.

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar ...