As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to the incredible force of nature’s ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the expanding Crab Nebula. New images compared with older ones show ...

A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through space at thousands of ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star collapsed, triggering a supernova explosion so bright it could be ...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within a supernova remnant.

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they ...

When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...