For the first time, astronomers have captured the breathtaking moment of a supernova explosion. This cosmic event reveals the ...

Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.

NASA scientists have identified what may be the first known pair of supernova remnants produced by stars that once orbited ...

M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...

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

A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...

Scientists using the Chandra X-ray telescope have uncovered new details about the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

The research team found that about half of the 22 X-ray sources linked to supernova remnants changed significantly in ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice ...

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

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 ...