A strange cosmic blast that lit up the sky in two distinct acts is forcing astronomers to rethink how stars live and die. The event, tagged AT2025ulz, appears to be the first known case where a ...
A new study from NASA reveals that a supernova observed nearly two millennia ago expanded inside a pre-formed cosmic cavity, offering strong evidence about the type of stellar explosion that created ...
Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line between a supernova and a kilonova. Yet that is where the evidence has led after an ...