Astrophysicists have identified the cause behind a super-bright supernova in a galaxy a billion light-years away, linking its luminosity to a rapidly spinning magnetar and the twisting of space-time.

Wa-hoo! One of the closest supernovas in years was discovered at a very early stage in the bright galaxy M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, in Ursa Major. The galaxy can be found just above the Handle of the ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the ...

Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and ...

A cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved by scientists studying a colossal stellar event a billion light-years from ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova could help astronomers determine how fast the universe is expanding and shed light on dark energy. Astronomers may be closer to understanding one of the ...

An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2024abvb—a recently ...

A before and after of the Pinwheel Galaxy, courtesy of observer and Unistellar College Astronomy Network member, Scott Kardel. July 11, 2023, Mountain View, CA - In an unprecedented achievement, ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it pinpointed a single star in a galaxy when the universe was only about 730 ...