Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a collision" ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave signal from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star report ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions.

An Ontario defence and aerospace company has been tasked with developing a tool to detect harmful space radiation for astronauts on the International Space Station.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...