The newborn magnetar, a specific kind of neutron star, actually enhances the brightness of a supernova.

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

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

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

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

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 brilliant supernova explosions ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a magnetar, a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star, directly linked to some of the universe’s brightest exploding stars. This ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

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 cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved by scientists studying a colossal stellar event a billion light-years from ...