The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

A mysterious cosmic blast 1.3 billion light-years away has left scientists stunned. What began as a familiar stellar event ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

Organised by the Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre, the results of the annual selection for the ‘Top 10 Innovation & ...

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Massive collisions between black holes and neutron stars have been happening for most of cosmic history. These events send ...

Inside the most powerful particle colliders on Earth, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, shredding matter ...

Scientists reveal how two unstable nuclei trigger neutron star explosions and power intense X-ray bursts across the universe.

The ability to collect this experimental data in very hot, dense, star-like plasma will help researchers validate and improve ...

PHOENIX — Like a motorboat doing doughnuts in a lake, Betelgeuse’s companion star leaves a wake in the giant star’s atmosphere. Signs of the smaller star’s trail around the red supergiant are the best ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...