A new study has shown that a good deal of Earth's heaviest elements may have come from a nearby neutron…
A new signal detected by LIGO/Virgo may be the so-called 'holy grail' of astrophysics: the merger of a neutron star…
We don't really understand neutron stars. Oh, we know that they are - they're the leftover remnants of some of…
On June 17th 2018, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey's twin telescopes spotted something extraordinarily bright in the…
An international team of scientists recently witnessed the birth of a binary neutron star system, which was indicated by a…
A new study has shown that "nuclear pasta", which exists beneath crust of a neutron star, is the strongest material…
In a new study, astrophysicists used the gravitational waves from last year's kilonova event to determine if the Universe has…
The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a…
Contrary to what was expected, a team of astronomers has discovered that kilonova event has been brightening ever since it…
Based on recent gravitational wave research, a team of scientists from the University of Frankfurt have placed an upper limit…