The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar companion. The radio pulse repeats every 2 hours and was first detected a ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...

Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.

5, 2025 — Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve ... Nuclear Reaction on Radioactive Nuclei Produced in Neutron Star Collisions Mar. 18, 2025 — Physicists have measured ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time, first predicted by Einstein ... the universe’s densest objects: black holes and neutron stars. The team’s algorithm targeted neutron stars ...