For the first time, astronomers have captured the breathtaking moment of a supernova explosion. This cosmic event reveals the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For decades, astronomers and stargazers have been waiting ...

M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...

Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.

A star exploded roughly 260 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and ...

A set of supernovae are behaving in weird ways, more than a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

NASA scientists have identified what may be the first known pair of supernova remnants produced by stars that once orbited ...

A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neutrinos are all but undetectable, but without their influence on exploding stars, Earth itself might not exist.