Gravastars, hypothetical alternatives to black holes, could end up nested inside one another like a Russian Matryoshka doll  – according to new calculations that...

Feb 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Supernovae are the spectacular end result of the collapse of stars more massive than 8-10 times the mass of the...

Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, have used the MeerKAT...

It is very likely that ultra-dense deconfined quark matter exists in the cores of the most massive neutron stars, according to a study by...

HELSINKI — China launched its Einstein Probe early Tuesday to detect X-ray emissions from violent, fleeting cosmic phenomena using novel lobster eye-inspired optics. A Long...

WASHINGTON — India launched an astronomy satellite to start a year that will feature key tests for its human spaceflight program and a potential...

The orbital launch calendar is set to begin just hours into the first day of 2024 based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). At 0340...

The orbital launch calendar began just hours into the first day of 2024 based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). At 0340 UTC (9:10 a.m....

Dec 28, 2023 (Nanowerk News) New theoretical analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter between 80 and 90...

IntroductionOn December 11, 2021, a beam of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — slammed into NASA’s Swift satellite. Within 120...

Nov 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in...

Physicists in Japan and Lithuania have found evidence that tellurium is produced in neutron star...