Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars explode and the ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

Greetings stargazers. Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same weekend it goes into effect. I need to take the chance to do ...

Astronomers have reported an unusually high-energy event that may represent a rare form of black hole feeding. The transient, named EP250702a, was fir.

A rare supernova whose light traveled more than 10 billion years to reach Earth is offering astronomers an unexpected opportunity to probe one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries. The explosion, known as ...

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

The experience of reading Brawler is like being caught by a strong current, pulled down into the dark, and brought back up ...

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That ...

Tomorrow is a day to mark in your calendars and spend some extra time admiring the sky because it is the designated date for the total lunar eclipse of 2026. A lunar eclipse is an infrequent ...

Every new instrument needs its mysteries, and no discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been more surprising ...

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

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...