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

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

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

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Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

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

Our universe, filled with galaxies and stars, is full of mysteries. Over the centuries, astronomers have observed and documented supernova—the ...

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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 ...

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