Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The density of such matter is equivalent to compressing around 100,000 Eiffel Towers ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

A strange double flash in a distant galaxy may be the first glimpse of a “superkilonova,” a cosmic one‑two punch that fuses ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed astonishing new details about an already known but highly unusual ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

Scientists from several institutions, including the University of Chicago, discovered a lemon-shaped planet with an ...

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls ...

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray luminosity rose and fell by factors of hundreds while its rotation rate ...

Jeff Garcia, the comedian best known for voicing Sheen Estevez in Jimmy Neutron, has died at 50 after weeks of escalating health issues, TMZ reported. Garcia was admitted to a Southern California ...

The actor, 48, is currently in a Southern California medical facility, though it's unclear why, according to TMZ. It comes just days after he was hospitalized for pneumonia around November 20. He was ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron ...