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

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests ...

You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

The study notes that if excess gamma light is not from dying stars, it could become the first proof that dark matter exists.

Scientists are confident that dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale in the universe ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

Stargazers in Essex can enjoy a mysterious glow in the Milky Way, which scientists say could be the answer in a hunt to prove dark matter exists.

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...