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

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Artistic impression of a neutron star collision leaving behind a rapidly expanding cloud of radioactive material. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CI Lab Artistic impression of a neutron star ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Astronomers have spotted an immensely powerful "zombie star" shooting through the Milky Way at more than 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h). The stellar cannonball, which has a magnetic field capable of ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

When the remnants of two stars collide, their union can launch a dazzling jet of high energy matter. A new computer simulation reveals how the merger, which forms a black hole, emits that bright beam, ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...

Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...