A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Learn about what may be the first ever superkilonova ever observed, emitting gravitational waves that hint at the collision ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the ...

Neutrinos, ghostly particles barely interacting with matter, may secretly be reshaping the fates of massive stars. New research suggests that as stars collapse, they form natural "neutrino colliders," ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers played a significant role in an international announcement today that has changed the future of astrophysics. The breakthrough discovery of colliding ...

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 ...