An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their fascinating ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The other key characteristic of neutron stars is their magnetic field. During neutron star mergers, this magnetic field can reach values over a billion times higher than the largest magnetic field ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

The star, which has been named ASKAP J1832, is behaving like no other seen before according to Nasa. Find out more here.