Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.

M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...

Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that ...

A set of supernovae are behaving in weird ways, more than a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...

A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in 1054, is still rapidly expanding, offering rare, direct evidence that the ...

Astronomers working with two of the world’s most powerful X-ray telescopes have identified what appears to be a young ...

Brutal. The post Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence ...

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 ...