The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

If possible, this could help scientists determine if the massive dying star that launches the detected supernova leaves a black hole or a neutron star in its wake. Since the first detection of ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...

A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ... July 16, 2024 — Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around ...

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...

Sarah Buchner, the lead science operator at the MeerKAT Radio Telescope, South Africa’s radio telescope is generating ...