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Mysterious 'Green Monster' lurking in James Webb photo of supernova remnant is finally explainedA green "Grinch-like" shape in a supernova remnant imaged by the James Webb telescope may have come from a blast debris field, scientists proposed
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Astronomers discover 25 'stripped stars' that may be a missing link in supernova scienceThe discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars.
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China is building the world's largest underwater telescope to hunt for elusive 'ghost particles'China's forthcoming Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) will search for the origins of cosmic rays in momentary flashes of light beneath the ocean's surface.
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'Significant and unexpected': Dying star spits out a sun's worth of mass just before going supernovaA supernova, pinpointed by amateur astronomers, could reveal unexpected new steps in the deaths of massive stars.
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Ancient supernova in James Webb telescope image could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteriesNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a distant supernova that appears three times in the same photo. The new observations could help solve one of the universe's biggest inconsistencies.
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Evidence of mysterious 'recurring nova' that could reappear in 2024 found in medieval manuscript from 1217The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity.
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Astronomers discover new class of cosmic explosion brighter than 100 billion sunsDubbed 'Luminous Fast Coolers,' this new class of extreme cosmic explosion is incredibly rare — and unbelievably bright.
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Brightest supernova of past 420 years revealed in stunning new James Webb telescope imagesThis supernova signaled the explosive death of a supergiant star in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Bizarre new cosmic object is the most magnetic star in the universeThe record-breaking find of a star 43,000 times more magnetic than the sun could help unravel the mystery of how magnetars form.
