"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Discover new insights into neutron star masses and formation. Learn how recent findings are reshaping astrophysics and ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

Cosmic particles with phenomenal energy have puzzled scientists for decades. A new theory may finally unveil their origin.

Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked a rare and fast-moving magnetar – called SGR 0501+4516 – as it speeds ...