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

“There is no other object like the neutron star in Supernova 1987A, so close to us and having formed so recently. Because the material surrounding it is expanding, we will see more of it as time ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from the supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The “ultra-stripped” supernova led researchers to discover the two stars 11,000 light-years ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

The Universe is a vast, twinkling enigma, teasing us with secrets that feel like they're just out of reach. Scientists at ...

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.