Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

For decades, scientists have tried to measure how fast the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is known as the Hubble constant, and it plays a central role in understanding the history and ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

Instead of focusing on how fast the universe is expanding, they looked at the ages of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

Astronomers have uncovered an ultra-rare star that could reshape our understanding of the early universe. Named PicII‑503, this 14-billion-year-old star has survived almost since the Big Bang and ...