Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions ... embedding helium inside ultra-thin silicon films to form billions of microscopic helium bubbles, each ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light on how heavy elements form in cosmic cataclysms like supernovae and neutron ...

For 35 years, a steady radio signal has been coming from deep space every 22 minutes and scientists still don’t know what it ...

And then—surprise—they've turned themselves inside out in a nuclear inferno ... One kind is triggered by neutron star mergers. The other is from hypernovas. These are when the biggest ...

Scientists from the KATRIN experiment have achieved the most precise upper limit ever recorded for the mass of the mysterious ...