Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare "pair-instability" supernova. It is a catastrophic ...

Earth is currently passing through a cloud of radioactive debris from an ancient supernova. Traces of iron-60, an isotope ...

NASA’s Fermi telescope may have finally uncovered the magnetic powerhouse behind the universe’s brightest supernovae.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of ...

Through the years since it was first launched, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning photographs of the Cassiopeia ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Supernovas are the most brilliant of explosions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A supernova is what happens when a star has ...

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 ...