Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

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 ...

A Magnetar is one of the most fascinating and terrifying objects in the universe. Known as the most powerful magnet in ...

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 ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

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

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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 ...