Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...

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 ...

Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn suffered a collapsed lung during an NHL preseason game and will need surgery. Benn is expected to make a full recovery and will be re-evaluated in four weeks, meaning ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The first (double) elimination of "Dancing with the Stars" Season 34 is Sept. 23. The new season premiered on Tuesday, Sept. 16, with 14 new celebrities and their pro partners competing for the Len ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, Nanjing Zhijiao Cloud Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.; Scientific concept ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum.

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

Using the joint Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), scientists uncovered a dense but surprisingly slow wind ...

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Astronomy James Webb telescope's ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, including the composition and structure of the merger ...