In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks ...

Even though the intense gravitational fields of black holes should cause them to evaporate faster, they put off total ...

Neutron stars are the crushed remains of massive stars, packed into spheres only a few miles across—but heavier than the Sun. Their density is so extreme that a single teaspoon of neutron-star matter ...

Researchers using neutron scanning technology have discovered a hidden reservoir of ancient water locked inside the Martian ...

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"We studied the last several orbits before the merger, when the entwined magnetic fields undergo rapid and dramatic changes, and modeled potentially observable high-energy signals." ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

Most ways to purify saltwater take up a lot of energy, but simply running seawater through a thin, heated slice of porous wood can render it fresh and drinkable ...

The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...

For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...

Perth, Feb 2 The Conversation Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have ...

Dustin Swarm, an astrophysicist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, recently helped capture the first X-ray view of a white dwarf star. Swarm, in collaboration with MIT, studied the ...