By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova remnant known as G292.0+1.8. Results of the new study, published June 29 on ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Communications. The original story " Scientists find evidence of a rare double supernova in the Jellyfish Nebula " is published in The ...

For decades, astrophysicists have been puzzling over a mystery hidden in plain view: Most supernovae come from the biggest ...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated the galaxy NGC 7793, searching for supernova remnants (SNRs). As a result, they discovered four new X-ray ...

The Jellyfish Nebula, one of the best-studied supernova remnants in our galaxy, may have been hiding a sibling this whole ...

The research team found that about half of the 22 X-ray sources linked to supernova remnants changed significantly in brightness.

Evidence for a significant new class of supernova has been found with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton. These results strengthen the case for a population of ...

A fizzled example of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, suggests these outbursts may not always work the way that scientists thought, and that versions of ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions ever detected in the Universe. They are also one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy, since so far no clear evidence has existed to prove ...

An artist’s illustration of two neutron stars merging, creating a gamma-ray burst – Copyright POOL/AFP/File Yuichi YAMAZAKI A mysterious cosmic explosion has been ...