Space may appear timeless, but modern astronomy reveals dramatic changes unfolding across the cosmos. Using decades of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. - NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS ...

Betelgeuse, the red supergiant anchoring Orion’s left shoulder, will one day run out of fuel and collapse into a supernova ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

Two Princeton researchers, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger, have become the first humans in recorded history to witness the explosion of a supernova in real time. Soderberg, who is a postdoctoral ...

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most ...

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that ...

Superluminous supernovas, or ultra-bright cosmic explosions, have puzzled scientists for years. Recent studies of a supernova ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.