The farthest fast radio burst yet came from a tiny, young galaxy, a clue that magnetars may set off at least some of these ...

Gamma rays from the explosion lasted roughly a third of a second. The X-rays kept going for what the research team calls ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence that some mysterious, minutes-long X-ray flashes are produced when two neutron stars ...

Astronomers have traced the most distant fast radio burst ever found, a mysterious cosmic flash that traveled across 10 ...

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are created by some of the most intense objects in the universe—primarily, black holes. But these high-energy bursts are also produced by magnetars, which are essentially ...

(SPACE.com) -- If a magnetar flew past Earth within 100,000 miles, the intense magnetic field of the exotic object would destroy the data on every credit card on the planet. This is not likely to ...

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form.

Learn more about magnetars and how they may also form from two colliding neutron stars.

A neutron star is born when a massive star dies out in a supernova, leaving its collapsed and incredibly dense core remaining. According to NASA, the gravitational force exerted by a neutron star is ...

Most of us have an idea how strange the universe can be. We have heard of the unusual things that are out in the cosmos such as pulsars and quasars. We’ve also heard of how the fundamental laws of ...

Researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have made observations of a new magnetar, called Swift J1818.0-1607, which challenges current knowledge about two types of extreme stars, ...