The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist ...

Sixteen years ago, theoretical astrophysicists at UC Berkeley and elsewhere proposed that highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars — magnetars — were the power source behind some superluminous ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most ...

The boundary between stars and planets appears increasingly indistinct. Objects such as brown dwarfs, neither fully stars nor ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

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

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...