Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...
Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down—and the source is not what astronomers expected
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...
Mysterious Space Signals Went Unexplained for Years – Astronomers Just Found the Star System Behind Them
A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...
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Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours
The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...
Fast Radio Bursts Explained? Scientists Zero In on Their Mysterious Origins
A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...
'A 2-hour mystery pulse': Radio signals from space reveal hidden White Dwarf system
Astronomers discovered a mysterious 2-hour radio pulse from a hidden white dwarf system, revealing a new type of stellar duo ...
Mysterious radio signals are coming from ‘unprecedented’ part of space, scientists say
Scientists believe the two stars – a red dwarf and a white dwarf – are in orbit around each other so tightly that their ...
Understanding gamma rays in our universe through StarBurst, a small satellite instrument
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...
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Distant star explosions could have wiped out life on Earth twice
A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.
The mysterious deep space radio signal that's been puzzling scientists for years
A decade ago, scientists on Earth were left baffled by a strange, repeating radio pulses from deep space. New research has ...