Core collapse supernovae are among the most powerful and dramatic events in the cosmos. When a massive star reaches the end ...

Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Collapsing stars might act as cosmic laboratories for discovering hidden neutrino interactions. Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles in the universe. Nearly massless and incredibly elusive, ...

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

When massive stars reach the end of their lives, something strange and violent happens deep inside them. As they run out of ...

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current ...

Neutrinos are among the most mysterious particles in the universe. They are extremely light, travel close to the speed of ...

Both teams releasing papers detected the object independently, using different sets of data. Both teams found the same ...

Like an ice skater drawing in their arms to increase their spin speed, the collapse of neutron stars can "spin up" these objects so much that some are capable of spinning up to 700 times per second.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

Neutron stars are the perfect cosmic laboratory for the scientists who study them, thanks to their observability, extreme gravity, and strong magnetic fields.