An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...