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

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn….” –Bernard DeVoto, The ...

Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

For the first time in anyone’s lifetime, the southern heavens are hosting not one but two naked-eye novae an event so rare ...

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

The bold question-askers at What If warn how a black neutron star could destabilize Earth’s orbit and wreak havoc.

Aiming to resolve the "neutron star hyperon puzzle," the study of hyperon potential has emerged as a frontier topic in the interdisciplinary field of nuclear and astrophysics.

Scientists found in 2020 that gravitational waves detected a year earlier came from two neutron stars — dense leftovers of exploded stars — paired up in a system 3.4 times the mass of the sun.

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