"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Artist’s concept of a black hole orbited by a cracked neutron star. Before a black hole consumes a neutron star, tidal forces from its immense gravity shears the star’s surface, causing quakes and the ...

WNBA star Caitlin Clark launched a new signature line of basketballs with Wilson. Clark joins Michael Jordan as the only athletes with full basketball collections for Wilson.

In a groundbreaking astronomical discovery, researchers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have identified singly-ionized germanium (Ge II) in a rare type of star known as an Extreme ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

More information: Kota Hayashi et al, Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407 ...