Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the first three-dimensional map of Uranus’ ionosphere, ...

The signal indicated that the event occurred extremely far away. The masses of the objects involved also caught scientists’ ...

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...

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

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

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

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

Benefit shows take center stage in Richmond this week with Supfest raising funds for the Richmond Community Bail Fund at The ...

Crews from Lincoln, Hallam, Wilbur, Bennett, Crete and the Southwest Rural Fire Department responded to the scene.

In June 2024, Alyssa Denham went to field a routine ground ball when a sudden tweak in her back didn’t feel great. She played ...