Astronomers reveal new insight into an iconic supernova remnant's evolution, structure and pulsar-driven growth over 25 years ...

NASA’s X-ray mission reveals new details about a 2,000-year-old supernova. Discover what scientists found, how the space telescope captured the data, and why the discovery helps explain the life cycle ...

NASA’s IXPE observatory and the Dark Energy Camera revealed detailed images of SN 185, a supernova that exploded in AD 185.

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

The ‘guest star’ of 185 AD has been one of astronomy's most unresolved cases for over 1800 years. Ancient Chinese chroniclers ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Crab Nebula, showing the movement of filaments and changes in gas composition over ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the ...

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen. Kasen and his colleagues hypothesized that at least some ...