is destined to die as a type 1a supernova — one of the most powerful types of stellar explosions. The study team first discovered the superdense stars, along with 33 other white dwarf binaries, in ...

The idea was first cooked up in 1969 after a scientist named Roger Penrose noticed that a particle getting close to a ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

This particular super-luminous supernova, called ASASSN-15lh, doesn't just break the record for most powerful - it obliterates it. On average, it outshines the average supernova by 200 times ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the pair are in close orbit, the heavier of the two theoretically accumulates ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it comes to one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics ...