Collision of Two Neutron Stars Billions of Years Ago Made Enough Gold and Uranium To Fill Earth's Oceans, Says Study Billions of years ago, deep down in the cosmos, two neutron stars began their ...

"CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King and aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe joined an all-female Blue Origin crew to experience the ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

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

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

The image shows two neutron stars colliding to releasing neutrons that radioactive nuclei rapidly capture. The combination of neutron capture and radioactive decay produces subsequently heavier ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...

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 ...

SEE ALSO: Researchers watched as gold was made millions of light-years from Earth Researchers detected both the ripples in space and time sent out by the colliding neutron stars as well as the ...

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves 100 years ago. These tiny ripples in space and time are generated when black holes or neutron stars collide. In September 2015, the LIGO ...