NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…
A strange glow in the heart of the Milky Way may be dark matter
A faint glow of gamma rays hangs over the center of the Milky Way, stretching across thousands of…
Scientists find a place where time moves backward
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban…
NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually…
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…
Astronomers Just Found a Monster Cosmic Explosion in the Last Place They Expected
Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars.…
Gravitational waves finally reveal what’s inside neutron stars
Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most…
NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy…
Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
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NASA finds what possibly happens milliseconds before neutron star collisions
When a neutron star merger occurs, it produces one of the most powerful explosions in the universe —…
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the…
NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our…