Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

In the vastness of space lies an incredible truth: we are made of stardust. This video tells the awe-inspiring story of how ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

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 ...

A neutron Star. one of the most energetic objects in the Cosmos. Computer Animation based on scientific Facts. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in ...

Image: Elias Most/Caltech In a follow-up simulation, the team modeled what happens as the black hole swallows the neutron star, and it’s even more intense than those gigantic tremors.

Sometimes a black hole is orbited by a neutron star—the dense corpse of a star also formed from a supernova explosion but which contains less mass than a black hole.

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This binary system contains a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar called PSR J1928+1815 and its helium star companion.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a ...