“There is no other object like the neutron star in Supernova 1987A, so close to us and having formed so recently. Because the material surrounding it is expanding, we will see more of it as time ...

Collapsing stars might act as cosmic laboratories for discovering hidden neutrino interactions. Neutrinos are among the most ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just 10 seconds. That is, if dark matter is composed of axions, ...

The neutron star stayed hidden for 37 years while lurking in the wreckage of a stellar explosion, Supernova 1987A. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have ended a nearly ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The supernova, known as SN 1987A, was a core ...

When stars go supernova, one of two outcomes happens. The core either becomes a neutron star or it collapses into a black hole. The star’s fate depends on its mass as well as the mass of the core.

“From theoretical models of SN 1987A, the 10-second burst of neutrinos observed just before the supernova implied that a neutron star or black hole was formed in the explosion.

Astronomers have made an astonishing revelation: the red supergiant Betelgeuse, one of the most studied stars in the night ...

When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for weeks in 1987.

That's because astronomers have discovered that this magnetar, which is a special type of highly magnetic neutron star, wasn't actually born in a nearby supernova as previously theorized ...