Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the universe. A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun , compressed into a region ...

Welcome to the most terrifying objects in the cosmos, Magnetars.These aren’t just neutron stars,they're neutron stars with supercharged magnetic power capable of ripping atoms apart and warping space ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold across space—all modeled with extreme detail using one of the world’s ...

Neutron stars as magnifying glasses. The idea of the axion as a dark matter particle is nice, but in physics an idea is only truly nice if it has observable consequences.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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