Get up to speed on gamma rays, the radiation responsible for creating the Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

The explosion stripped off the star's outer layers, and the stellar core—now a neutron star—lies in the ... Named because their color and size made them resemble planets through early ...

Everyone has seen the iridescent rainbow patterns in an oil sheen on water.  Oil is hydrophobic, which repels water and doesn’t mix.  It spreads out across the surface of the water, and if ...

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.

Researchers are delving into the world of starquakes to understand the densest matter in the universe within neutron stars. This study not only bridges the gap between astronomy and nuclear physics ...

Neutron stars are the remains of massive supernova explosions, packing more than the mass of our Sun into a space barely the ...