Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles. Come too close to one, and you'd get sucked in by its gravitational ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

Black holes are physical Twilight Zones, some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, difficult to find, and even harder to study. They form when a massive star, at least 20 times as ...

David Garofalo, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic particles.