Welcome to the most terrifying objects in the cosmos, Magnetars.These aren’t just neutron stars,they're neutron stars with supercharged magnetic power capable of ripping atoms apart and warping space ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

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

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

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

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

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

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

Midgard What if Marvel sat around and decided, with this budget, which hero would replace young Clark Kent? I landed on one ...

The 13-year-old actor and executive producer joins an A-list voice cast in a reimagined, steampunk-inspired Pinocchio tale ...