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

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, ...

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

In the vastness of the universe, there are many awe-inspiring objects, but few are as terrifying as magnetars. These cosmic ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 ...

Roman’s deep, time-lapse survey may reveal a hundred thousand stellar cataclysms, from distant Type Ia supernovae to the self ...

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...