Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a ...

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 ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to Type II supernova explosions.

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

The star, WOH G64, lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 163,000 light-years from Earth. It is enormous, roughly ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, ...

For the first time, we have a front-row seat to one of the most violent events in the universe: a supernova. But there’s a ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

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 ...