Something we’ve never seen before is coming out of a solar system in our galaxy, astronomers say - Blasts of gas travelling ...

The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova ...

Astronomers have detected the magnetic signature surrounding a gamma-ray burst afterglow for the first time, opening a new way to study the extreme physics behind these cosmic explosions. The ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

A new data-gathering project at a Chilean observatory will provide reams of new data for scientists around the globe A new data-gathering project at a Chilean observatory has Duke physicists bracing ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...