A new study now extends the researchers' previous work, but with a wider GRB sample. Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly, authors of the study, have refined the measurements. They detected a number of relatively ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Ryan Amberger is headed to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he will spend the next year studying nuclear astrophysics — specifically, the process behind the creation of half of the elements ...

Dr. Darren DePoy and Dr. Jennifer Marshall reflect on career inspiration and the latest result from one of the projects they’ve been involved in since arriving at Texas A&M University nearly two ...

(Courtesy: LANL) A model that could help explain how heavy elements are forged within collapsing stars has been unveiled by Matthew Mumpower at Los Alamos National Laboratory and colleagues in the US.

Jackman and Foster’s connection had all the trappings of a theatrical fairytale, with two stars colliding amid the spotlight, sneaking around like teenagers who couldn’t get enough of each other.

Nanomaterials Used to Measure Nuclear Reaction on Radioactive Nuclei Produced in Neutron Star Collisions Mar. 18, 2025 — Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron ...

To address this, an international team developed a machine learning algorithm called DINGO-BNS (Deep INference for Gravitational-wave Observations from Binary Neutron Stars). This neural network can ...

The neutron data also gave the scientists a bonus. It let them look at up and down quarks separately. These are the two “flavors” of quarks found in protons and neutrons.