Watch the moment a star explodes in a supernova — something scientists have never directly witnessed like this before. The footage captures the early stages of the explosion, offering a rare glimpse ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

WASHINGTON — A supernova — the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life — is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some — a small ...

Oscillations in the brightness of a ‘superluminous’ supernova reveal it to be powered by a magnetized neutron star that distorts the orbit of surrounding gas. Superluminous supernovae are often more ...

Supernovae are colossal explosions triggered as ancient stars come to the end of their lives. Scientists have done huge amounts of work to identify and understand these cosmic fireworks but, in the ...

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara ...

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Netflix has half a dozen new projects coming out of Mexico including a doc on boxing star Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, a local version of the Physical 100 reality competition format, and coverage of ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light. Reading time 2 minutes A mind-blowing video shows the remnant of an ancient ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...