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Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...

The final dance of a black hole and a neutron star before their ultimate merger has been revealed, according to new research.

Researchers said this event, called GRB 230906A, is likely in a stream of gas located about 4.7 billion light-years from Earth. The post Neutron star collision may have created gold and platinum ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

Astronomers have spotted a jaw-dropping collision between two neutron stars – and it may have produced gold and platinum. The discovery in a tiny far-away galaxy is the first time this has been seen ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

"What's really exciting is that this is definitive evidence for a magnetar forming as the result of a superluminous supernova core collapse," explained Alex Filippenko, a UC Berkeley distinguished ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have observed the fallout from a planetary collision 11,000 light years from Earth. When worlds collide…suns act ...