As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to the incredible force of nature’s ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the expanding Crab Nebula. New images compared with older ones show ...

A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through space at thousands of ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star collapsed, triggering a supernova explosion so bright it could be ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice ...

When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...