We know what will happen to our Sun. It'll follow the same path other stars of its ilk follow. It'll…
An international team has simulated what happens when a black hole and neutron star merge, and the results were pretty
What happens when galaxies collide? Well, if any humans are around in about a billion years, they might find out.…
Ten billion years ago the young Milky Way survived a titanic merger with a neighboring galaxy, eventually consuming the whole…
The Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of black holes and neutron stars. Einstein gets the credit for the theory…
Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that explode as supernovae at the end of their fusion lives. They're…
In 2005 astronomers found a dense grouping of stars in the Virgo constellation. It looked like a star cluster, except…
When neutron stars collide, they go out with a tremendous bang, fueling an explosion up to a thousand times more…
Modern humans—or Homo Sapiens—have only been around for about 250,000 years. That's only the blink of an eye in cosmological…
Astronomers have found a white dwarf that was once two white dwarfs. The pair of stars merged into one about…