Tags: neutron stars

Neutron stars may not be as weighty as their more massive black hole cousins, but they can be just as mighty when it comes to generating awesome X-ray fireworks. Since...

The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world....

Astronomers are still focused on the collision of the two collapsed star cores that took place about 138 million light-years away and sent gravitational waves rippling through the universe. The...