Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...

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 ...

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

In it, they detail how they looked at the data gathered during the neutron star collision and its resulting kilonova, as well as how they discovered the almost perfect sphere that it created when ...

Neutron star mergers emit visible light (in the subsequent kilonova explosion) and other electromagnetic radiation in addition to gravitational waves. "Rapid and accurate analysis of the ...

including a gamma-ray burst and a kilonova explosion seen in visible light. As the two stars spiral toward one another and merge to form a "hyper-massive" neutron star, a small fraction of the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered humanity’s first known example of a rare binary system ...

Neutron star mergers emit visible light (in the subsequent kilonova explosion) and other electromagnetic radiation in addition to gravitational waves. “Rapid and accurate analysis of the gravitational ...

Merging neutron stars give themselves away through gravitational waves. However, there is not much time left to observe the ...