"For the first time, we see the creation of atoms; we can measure the temperature of the matter and see the microphysics in ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

The researchers came to this conclusion while studying 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts using the Neutron Star Interior ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow caused by the radioactive decay of heavy elements ...

Not only this, but the neutron star's surface is also erupting with explosions as powerful as detonating atomic bombs. The team discovered the extreme stellar remnant using NASA's X-ray telescope ...

When the two neutron stars collide, the initial kilonova of exploded neutron star guts is extremely hot, billions of degrees, ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

Interactions between these as-yet hypothetical particles and neutron stars' strong magnetic field would produce photons that ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...