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

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...

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According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

For more than a decade, a ghostly shell of radio light sat in survey data, too faint and ambiguous to be called anything more ...

When the first gravitational wave (GW) was detected back in 2015, scientists said they had opened a new window into the Universe. While most of astronomy is based on detecting electromagnetic energy, ...

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.

Spread the loveIntroduction In a remarkable discovery that could reshape our understanding of cosmic phenomena, astronomers led by Mansi Kasliwal from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

WASHINGTON — A supernova, the explosive death of a star, is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But ...

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 ...