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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L.

Astronomers have spotted a jaw-dropping collision between two neutron stars – and it may have produced gold and platinum. The discovery in a tiny, faraway galaxy is the first time this has been seen ...

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

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Cloudgazer, I would be curious about your take on a couple of things. First, this new theory by Verlinde called "emergent gravity." It seems like a modification to MOND, though I do not claim to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...