Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected an exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB), known as a kilonova. This event is a violent collision between two neutron stars.This ...
A blast occurring 3 billion light-years from Earth has generated enough heavy metals to exceed the total mass of all the planets, moons, and asteroids in the Solar System combined.In ...
Astronomers at the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) of the U.S. National Science Foundation have discovered a rare binary star system for the first time in the Milky Way ...
