A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

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

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The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

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 ...

A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a magnetar, a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star, directly linked to some of the universe’s brightest exploding stars. This ...

It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole—that was so ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky—a supernova so bright it was visible ...