Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...

This artist's animation shows a hypothe sized event known as a superkilonova . Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and these signals offer new insights into how massive stars meet their demise.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no diamond in the sky. That looks like a supernova. As much as we love to blow ...

What happens to a large star near the end of its lifetime before it explodes as a supernova? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...