Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a gravitational wave signal detected on Aug. 18, 2025. A kilonova describes the ...
The Milky Way likely harbors hundreds of millions of neutron stars, remnants of stellar explosions. Yet only a few thousand ...
A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond pulsations hidden within a powerful cosmic explosion known as a gamma-ray burst ...
This collapse leads to a supernova explosion, leaving behind either a black hole or a neutron star.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could reveal millions of hidden neutron stars in the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing.
An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, Nanjing Zhijiao Cloud Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.; Scientific concept ...