Understanding these cosmic collisions not only sheds light on the origins of elements but also reveals the history that ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed into each other and debris from that intense explosion (called kilonova) ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

When enough gas builds up on the neutron star's surface, it triggers a massive thermonuclear explosion that releases an intense burst of X-ray radiation. Another theory is that it could be a rare ...

An international team, including UNIGE, has reproduced for the first time the formation and evolution of a magnetar.

Neutron stars are the dense remnants of massive stars, more than eight times as massive as our sun, born at the end of their lives in a brilliant supernova explosion. These incredibly dense ...

This stellar explosion, from a star 20 times the size ... Astronomers have detected a neutron star in the binary system 4U 1820-30 spinning at 716 times per second, breaking records for speed.

A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.

a neutron star is formed when a massive star undergoes a supernova explosion, while a white dwarf emerges when a star with a low to medium mass exhausts its nuclear fuel and sheds its outer layers.