A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric ...

A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most ...

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