In the final moments before two neutron stars collide, their magnetic fields spiral into chaos, twisting and snapping as they ...

Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...

The presence of this carbon, combined with the star’s extreme mass, pointed researchers toward a more dramatic origin story than simple solitary evolution, a conclusion reinforced by the way the ...

NEW YORK — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright ...