NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by ...

Scientists discover a star, HD 254577, that survived a supernova and is now racing through space, revealing how the explosion ...

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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 recorded a mysterious li.

A brief X-ray flash caught by a Chinese-European space telescope has led astronomers to identify what may be an entirely new ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

A supernova – the explosive death of a star – is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind ...

The supernova is one of the most powerful events in the universe, a star exploding in a brilliant flash. But could humans ever trigger such an event? Theoretically, it would require manipulating a ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...