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Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed into each other and debris from that intense explosion (called kilonova) ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive stellar supernova explosion. What makes this system even more spectacular is ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have achieved a remarkable first: capturing a detailed view of a red supergiant star just before it exploded as a supernova. The star, located ...

By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...

"The best-case scenario for axions is Fermi catches a supernova. It's just that the chance of that is small." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Scientists just got to watch nearly the entirety of a kilonova explosion caused by a neutron star merger, thanks to a multi-national telescopic effort. The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions ...

An international team of scientists identified a supernova’s source star, or progenitor, for the first time. The post Most ...