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

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

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

New ALMA and JWST observations reveal why Wolf–Rayet star WR 112 produces tiny dust grains, showing a bimodal grain ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

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

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...