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When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material ...

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars." ...

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 ...

A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.

The international KM3NeT collaboration, with the participation of the University of Granada, publishes the detection of a ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has identified what's causing mysterious lights in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed ...

Physicists have detected the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever felt on Earth, with nearly 100 times more energy than any ...

< Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The different col ... The KM3NeT Collaboration ...

The most violently explosive events in the universe -- such as a star going supernova, two neutron stars smashing into each ...