Rocket Lab. The opening lifts the Commonwealth of Virginia into the big leagues for government and commercial rocketry, ...

Astronomers have doubled the number of black hole and neutron star mergers detected via gravitational waves in a "stellar ...

The first-ever detection of gravitational waves was made 10 years ago today (Sept. 14). In celebration, Space.com takes you ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

Explore the limits of approaching a neutron star. See how its extreme gravity and radiation make getting close impossible.

Researchers have discovered that PSR B1937+21's incredible rotation speed is due to its process of accreting material from a ...

PSR B1937+21 is a millisecond pulsar located in the direction of the constellation Vulpecula, renowned for its astonishing rotation speed of 642 revolutions per second. Since its discovery in 1982, it ...

Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...

The Africa Nebula is a supernova remnant linked to Circinus X-1, an X-ray-emitting neutron star. It also surrounds the companion star that Cir X-1 orbits.