A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar ...

"Understanding the birth masses of neutron stars is key to unlocking their formation history," said Dr. Simon Stevenson, an OzGrav researcher at Swinburne University and co-author of the study.

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star ... crucial role in the formation of heavy elements, which astronomers have observed in ancient stars -- celestial ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Collision of Two Neutron Stars Billions of Years Ago Made Enough Gold and Uranium To Fill Earth's Oceans, Says Study Billions ...

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical engineer contractor Eloise ...