A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...
Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...
Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp.
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...
A University of Virginia doctoral student and a team of astronomers have, for the first time, captured radio waves from a rare class of exploding star, giving them an unprecedented look into the final ...
Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.
A supernova is one of the most powerful events that can happen in the Universe - we are talking, after all, about a star exploding – and because of that, they have always been actively researched by ...
According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here's how they plan to crack the case.
It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...