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

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

A team of astronomers employing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered the most distant exploding star to be recorded spectroscopically, giving scientists a glimpse into the early days ...

This artist's animation shows a hypothe sized event known as a superkilonova . Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is weighing in on a longstanding debate over why we don’t see more of the most massive red supergiant stars go supernova. NASA/ESA/CSA/Northrop Grumman In recent years, ...

Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp.

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 ...