A stellar explosion that briefly outshone its entire host galaxy may have left behind a calling card no superluminous ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion powered up by the creation of ...

Magnetar has announced that its UDP800MKII and flagship UDP900MKII universal media players have officially earned Roon Ready ...

A magnetar that "woke up" in 2018 after years of radio silence emitted strange, wobbly radio signals — and scientists cannot explain them, new studies show. The findings suggest that the universe's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was ...

In April, we reported that Magnetar helped spur the creation of at least 30 collateralized debt obligations, worth about $40 billion, as part of a strategy to bet against the mortgage securities ...

Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events ...

Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, and astronomers have been stumped on how these objects form. New observations of a magnetar 16,000 light-years from ...

Astronomers have observed an uncommon neutron star. Classified as magnetar, its nature is as peculiar as its official name: SGR 0418+5729. The observations reached an unprecedented depth at optical ...

The guiding force behind Magnetar was Alec Litowitz, a triathlete, astronomy buff and rising star in the investing world. In 2003, Litowitz retired from a Chicago-based hedge fund, Citadel, one of the ...

The universe is so vast that even the closest stars are light-years away. They are so distant that they were long thought to be fixed points in the velvet night. Since we can't yet travel to the stars ...