Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L.

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The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of colliding neutron stars known as a kilonova. Then it brightened again, shifted ...

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 ...

Cloudgazer, I would be curious about your take on a couple of things. First, this new theory by Verlinde called "emergent gravity." It seems like a modification to MOND, though I do not claim to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars—the ultradense remnants of dead stars—collided. The catastrophic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...