When a star in the nearby galaxy NGC 2146 exploded in late 2024, it barely registered by supernova standards. The blast, ...

A Mysteriously Bright Supernova Stunned Scientists: Now They Think They Know the Cause ...

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

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

These explosions are called a pair-instability supernovasThe supernovas involve the largest stars in the universeThey do not ...

Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical ...

An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the universe. At the end of their ...

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.

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 ...