The cosmos has delivered a rare kind of fireworks display, and astronomers are racing to understand what it means. A strange double flash from a distant galaxy appears to show two neutron stars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. artist's impression of a superkilonova A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of subatomic particles with no electric charge (i.e., neutrons). When two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist's concepts shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers played a significant role in an international announcement today that has changed the future of astrophysics. The breakthrough discovery of colliding ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A bright burst of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth. This event likely ...

Two neutron stars violently collide—potentially the sourse of all heavy elements in the universe, including gold. Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. On June 3, 3.9 billion light-years away, two ...

In the final moments before two neutron stars collide, their magnetic fields spiral into chaos, twisting and snapping as they unleash high-energy radiation into space. Using a NASA supercomputer, ...

But it takes the collision of two neutron stars — incredibly dense stellar corpses — to create the heavier elements like silver, gold, and platinum. Neutron stars aren’t just notable for the valuable ...