See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist's concepts shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which ...

The study shows how some stars churn out heavy elements with no roadblock.

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent ...

A Mississippi State physicist has produced a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during explosive bursts on neutron stars. These bursts forge heavier elements—the ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of ...