Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions.

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...

Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave signal from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star report ...

Breakthrough discovery provides new clues about how these celestial bodies - that push the known laws of physics to their limits - find each other.

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...

Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a neutron star and a black hole merged while travelling in an oval-shaped orbit ...

Caption: An unmanned NASA spacecraft deliberately smashed into an asteroid in an unprecedented test to prepare for the possibility of a planet-killing space rock. While this asteroid was not a threat, ...

An oddly-behaving star led two UW astronomers to capture rare evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar ...

Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...