A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.

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

New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

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 ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Astronomers discovered two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system destined to trigger a rare quadruple detonation. This will occur about 22.6 billion years from now. Their eventual supernova ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.