Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio ...

Professor of Physics and Astronomy at West Virginia University Maura McLaughlin speaks on Wednesday night in Kresge Auditorium. McLaughlin discussed fundamental processes of the universe, such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist's concepts shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which ...

Neutron stars escape collapse into a black hole thanks to degeneracy pressure produced by their neutrons, which is able to fight the crushing force of gravity. What exactly lies at the heart of a ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions. The ...

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a ...

For decades, astronomers have been listening to the universe: the faint crackle of radio waves, the rhythmic pulse of neutron stars, and the silent signatures of black holes. But in 2018, something ...

The image that combines data from X-ray, optical, and Hα line observations. NGC 7793 P13 is located away from the galactic center of NGC 7793. When gas falls onto a compact object, such as a neutron ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...