A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

Explore 21 of the most remarkable images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, showcasing the beauty and vastness of ...

That is mainly because there are two types ... out that the neutron star-interstellar object collision rates will depend on the kinds of galaxies, such as elliptical or spiral galaxies, in which ...

At the bottom of the ocean, evidence of what researchers are calling a “supernova graveyard” has been discovered. But what ...

In a world of food trends that come and go faster than Ohio weather changes, these nine donut shops stand as temples to timeless quality. No matter where you live in the Buckeye State, the miles ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

The pair of white dwarfs are leisurely spiraling around each other and their orbit takes over 14 hours to complete. Over billions of years, gravitational wave radiation will cause the two stars to ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This cosmic nursery, packed with thousands of ...

This work builds on data collected by various observatories worldwide. These images show the merger of two neutron stars simulated with a new supercomputer model. Red colors indicate lower-density ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

That's because astronomers have discovered that this magnetar, which is a special type of highly magnetic neutron star, wasn't actually ... called HB9, as the two are tantalizingly close in ...