Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

In the expanse of space, where stars burn and galaxies collide, there exists a type of star so strange and powerful that it ...

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

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

Astrophysicists have observed an extraordinary event following the collision of two neutron stars—the explosive birth of a ...

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 ...

It's not science fiction: Scientists have discovered a neutron star that spins faster than any blender humans have ever made.

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