See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

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 ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...