Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

An international team analyzed data from NASA's Fermi space telescope and detected gamma rays from a rare and exceptionally ...

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 ...

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.

Through the years since it was first launched, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning photographs of the Cassiopeia ...

Stargazing runs in Nathan Gray’s family. The 10-year-old boy from Nova Scotia, Canada, discovered a 600 million-year-old supernova on Oct. 30 -- beating his sister by 33 days as the youngest person to ...

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 ...