A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole—that was so ...

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The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers ...

A supernova witnessed nearly 2,000 years ago is back in focus as NASA’s powerful X-ray telescope uncovers a hidden cosmic ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

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 ...