I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Rocket Lab achieved a new milestone on June 28, 2025, with the successful launch of a confidential satellite aboard its Electron rocket.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

The bold question-askers at What If warn how a black neutron star could destabilize Earth’s orbit and wreak havoc.

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After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...