New research led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, published in Nature Astronomy, finds that ...

The Perseus Cluster is a massive galaxy cluster located in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the largest structures in ...

A distant supernova, SN 2025mkn, became visible from nine billion light years away after a galaxy’s gravity bent and brightened its light, helping scientists study it in detail.

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer reveals the expansion and shock patterns within RCW 86, a supernova observed by ...

SN 2025mkn is a Type II supernova and it wasn't supposed to be visible at all. The violent death of a massive star that had ...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron ...

Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical ...

The study, published in Nature, uses gravitational wave observations to probe how the most massive stars end their lives, ...

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 ...