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 ...

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 ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

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

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

This artist’s conception shows the collision of two neutron stars on Aug. 17. The event was detected in both gravitational waves and, more significantly, light. Jonah B. Kanner / Caltech ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

A Magnetar is one of the most fascinating and terrifying objects in the universe. Known as the most powerful magnet in existence, a magnetar has a magnetic field that is billions of times stronger ...

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.