(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of colliding neutron stars known as a kilonova. Then it brightened again, shifted ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

Cloudgazer, I would be curious about your take on a couple of things. First, this new theory by Verlinde called "emergent gravity." It seems like a modification to MOND, though I do not claim to ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...