After its “birth” in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest ...

Analyzing data from GW170817, the first kilonova ever discovered, scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Related: A nearby kilonova explosion could threaten all life on Earth. But don't worry "Our new method will help to analyze the properties of matter at extreme densities. It will also allow us to ...

A team of scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to observe an exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst, GRB 230307A, and its associated kilonova. Kilonovas—an explosion produced by ...

The team was part of an international group of scientists who discovered and made some of the first observations of a kilonova, a massive type of celestial explosion caused by two neutron stars ...

If forged by the phenomenal force of a kilonova, such elements would be eternal, or nearly so. Small amounts could have made their way to our Solar System. Within planets, they would sink to the ...

This material almost immediately decayed into lighter elements, leading to a bright, radioactive "kilonova" astronomers could see some 85 million to 160 million light-years away from Earth.

How do they interpret the blueprints that he lays out? That’s never more evident than on the awesome Kilonova: its juddering rhythm and hallucinogenic composition feeling like a lost banger by Tool.