Stretching tens of thousands of light-years above and below the center of the Milky Way are two enormous structures known as the Fermi Bubbles. These vast clouds of extremely hot plasma emit powerful ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is pleased to announce that David Lassner, President Emeritus of the University of Hawai'i (UH), and his team will be recognized ...

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing through space at roughly 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to eventually ...

The freezing winds of Antarctica whip across the interior of the continent, kicking up snow into cold, bustling gales of frost. But miles under the surface, inside ice first formed millions of years ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun.

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.

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