Earlier this year, astronomer David Sand and his team were searching about 500 galaxies a night using the PROMPT telescope in Chile to find supernova — an exploding star. Just before heading to bed on ...

Apr. 25, 2026 A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion. When you purchase through links on ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of the universe's most powerful magnets, or magnetars, at the heart of an unusually bright supernova, thanks to an effect first ...