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

It isn’t a secret that humanity and everything around us is made of star stuff. But not all stars create elements equally. Sure, regular stars can create the basic elements: helium, carbon, neon, ...

CHICAGO — The cause of split-second explosions that release 100 thousand trillion times more energy than the sun, and are second in enormity only to the Big Bang itself, has been pinned down by an ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, including the composition and structure of the merger ...

You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

Intense gravitational lensing means you’d be able to see much more of a neutron star standing on its surface than you would ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. Both are multi-billion-dollar international ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...