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

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

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

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

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

"It’s a very old and dead galaxy," co-author Tarraneh Eftekhari told Sky and Telescope. Recent research has pointed to ...

4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron ... Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

"It’s a very old and dead galaxy," co-author Tarraneh Eftekhari told Sky and Telescope ... These stellar remnants are essentially neutron stars with intense magnetic fields about a trillion ...

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

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