A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

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Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image released on March 11, 2026. Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully/Handout via ...

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up as several copies at once, scattered around two foreground galaxies. The ...