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

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a magnetar, a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star, directly linked to some of the universe’s brightest exploding stars. This ...

The violent collision of two neutron stars is providing new insights on how the universe’s heaviest elements were created.

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

In 2023, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unusual class of short gamma-ray bursts, whose origin appeared to be the collision of two neutron ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Superluminous supernovas, or ultra-bright cosmic explosions, have puzzled scientists for years. Recent studies of a supernova a billion light-years away reveal that a magnetar, a dense neutron star, ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have traced a short-duration gamma-ray burst event called GRB 230906A to a faint dwarf galaxy embedded in a vast stream of ...

Few spectacles in space are as phenomenal as supernovae, but a "superkilonova" may give them a run for their money. This type of cosmic outburst is thought to arise when a supernova cascades into a ...

Researchers said this event, called GRB 230906A, is likely in a stream of gas located about 4.7 billion light-years from Earth.