Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...