Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe galaxy Messier 83 (M83) spotted the unexpected explosive ...

A set of supernovae are behaving in weird ways, more than a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that ...

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected ...

An international team of astronomers believes it has found evidence of one of the closest supernova ever to have occured near the center of the galaxy.

Astronomers working with two of the world’s most powerful X-ray telescopes have identified what appears to be a young ...

Once charted as a 'guest star' in ancient China, dreaded as a harbinger of ill omens in medieval Europe, and preserved in the ...

Scientists working with material collected from asteroid Bennu have found a sticky, gum-like organic substance never before ...

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 ...

Researchers leverage a multiangle simulations approach to elucidate the roles of neutrino fast flavor conversion affects core ...

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 ...