The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

The current AI race has reached a bottleneck that can be relieved only by new sources of electrical generation. Read more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for ...

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for more ...

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...