Astronomers have spotted an immensely powerful "zombie star" shooting through the Milky Way at more than 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h). The stellar cannonball, which has a magnetic field capable of ...
A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...
Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron ...
A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of ...
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 ...
Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...