Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

The results are described in Nature 1 on 5 March. Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that collapsed at the end of their lifetimes, compressing more than a Sun’s worth of mass into a ...

Stars with a mass between eight and twenty times that of the Sun tend to explode in a supernova and then collapse into a neutron star when they burn out, which is how we get exotic stellar objects ...

which spanned from their collapse to their explosion. These simulations allowed them to predict the masses of the neutron stars that would emerge from the explosions with good accuracy.

Joaquín Bohigas Bosch, former researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Oxford University, will explain ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, have a typical radius of 10 km—just slightly more than the altitude ...

Collapsing Star is Mio's story about surviving a dying sun by escaping its solar flares and deactivating it to avert a disaster. However, reaching the dying sun is going to get tricky, so here's a ...

In some cases, the core of these big stars collapses. “It’s basically a giant atomic bomb that’s called a supernova.” The dense core that is left over is known as a neutron star. These are much denser ...