Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

In September 2015, humanity heard the sound of the universe for the first time: gravitational waves predicted by Albert ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

The seven young actors who portrayed the Von Trapp family children sang and danced throughout 1965's movie classic, "The Sound of Music." They remained close — two of them even went to prom together. ...

The iconic film The Sound of Music was released in 1965 and remains a classic. One of the movie's stars, Nicholas Hammond, recently opened up about the difficulties of being a child actor in a film ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, Nanjing Zhijiao Cloud Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.; Scientific concept ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum.

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 collision and merger of two neutron stars — the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars — are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...