NASA scientists have identified what may be the first known pair of supernova remnants produced by stars that once orbited ...

Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.

M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...

A set of supernovae are behaving in weird ways, more than a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that ...

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...

The research team found that about half of the 22 X-ray sources linked to supernova remnants changed significantly in ...

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...

A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...

Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...