The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar ...

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Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. A special class of neutron stars, they are celestial bodies ...

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the ...

For many years, astronomers have relied on distant supernovae as cosmic beacons to study the universe and test the laws of physics. But while ...