LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data ...

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 ...

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) drew fresh attention from investors after one of its largest shareholders sold a large block of stock, adding to a wave of insider selling in the AI cloud company. CoreWeave is ...

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 ...

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 ...