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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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

Once charted as a 'guest star' in ancient China, dreaded as a harbinger of ill omens in medieval Europe, and preserved in the ...

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

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 ...

Neutrinos are all but undetectable, but without their influence on exploding stars, Earth itself might not exist.