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

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...

For the first time, an international collaboration of more than 800 scientists has joined forces to track down the sources of ...