Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

This study shows that the universe itself can push the boundaries of physics in ways laboratory tests cannot. By ruling out ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA collaboration with ...

Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

How could the first black holes have formed immediately after the Big Bang, even before the ignition of stars? This question ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...