Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...

To keep working into the future – to maintain the services on which we all depend – geodesy needs some more lanes on the radio highway. When the spectrum is divided up via international treaties ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...