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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in 1054, is still rapidly expanding, offering rare, direct evidence that the ...

For more than a decade, a ghostly shell of radio light sat in survey data, too faint and ambiguous to be called anything more ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

When the first gravitational wave (GW) was detected back in 2015, scientists said they had opened a new window into the Universe. While most of astronomy is based on detecting electromagnetic energy, ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image ...

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 ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful events that can happen in the Universe - we are talking, after all, about a star exploding – and because of that, they have always been actively researched by ...