Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar ...

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A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

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

Dr. Darren DePoy and Dr. Jennifer Marshall reflect on career inspiration and the latest result from one of the projects they’ve been involved in since arriving at Texas A&M University nearly two ...

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other ...

StarBurst, a wide-field gamma ray observatory, arrived at March 4 for environmental testing and final instrument integration.

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...