In a universe governed by turbulence and chaos, perfection is rarely more than a mathematical ideal. Yet astronomers are puzzling over a newfound object that seems to defy that rule: a glowing, nearly ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

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

One such discovery was the identification of the most distant so-called core-collapse supernova ever confirmed.

European Space Agency gives construction go-ahead for LISA gravitational-wave mission “By complementing other multimessenger observations in the electromagnetic spectrum and neutrinos, ...

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