Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite gri image of NGC 4388 showing SN 2023fyq, captured by the Las Cumbres Observatory on August 11, 2023. White tick marks ...

iPTF14hls is a star that refuses to follow the rules. Discovered in September 2014, it was supposed to be a typical supernova -explode once, dim in about 100 days, leave behind a neutron star or black ...

Artistic impression of a neutron star collision leaving behind a rapidly expanding cloud of radioactive material. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CI Lab Artistic impression of a neutron star ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...