Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...

This illustration depicts an artist’s impression of one of the brightest explosions ever observed in space. (Image: NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick, Mahdi Zamani) Astronomers using the James ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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 ...

25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. (Image: NASA/CXC/SAO) NASA shared a time-lapse video of Kepler's Supernova Remnant expanding. Chandra's X-ray images show intricate debris patterns ...

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 ...