It isn’t a secret that humanity and everything around us is made of star stuff. But not all stars create elements equally. Sure, regular stars can create the basic elements: helium, carbon, neon, ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, including the composition and structure of the merger ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

CHICAGO — The cause of split-second explosions that release 100 thousand trillion times more energy than the sun, and are second in enormity only to the Big Bang itself, has been pinned down by an ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and now the science is... On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the ...