A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...

The violent merger of two neutron stars is thought to involve three main energy-transfer processes, shown in this diagram, that give rise to the different types of radiation seen by astronomers, ...

Scientists using NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have estimated the depth of the crust on a neutron star, the densest object known in the universe. The crust, they say, is close to a mile deep and ...

Researchers might have detected different breeds of dense stars called neutron stars, each created by different kinds of exploding stars. Neutron stars are stellar corpses left over from supernovas, ...

Physicists have measured the microscopically thin skin of neutrons enclosing the insides of atoms of lead for the first time, finding that it's thicker than expected. The discovery could help to ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...

It could take scientists 1,000 years to see anything else like it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers studying a dead ...

The universe may contain extremely dense and exotic hypothetical cosmic objects known as strange quark stars. While astrophysicists continue to debate quark stars' existence, a team of physicists has ...

The lightest neutron star ever found, at around 0.77 times the mass of the sun, no longer fits with our understanding of how these stars form. It might even contain exotic matter like strange quarks.

At long last scientists believe they have the answer to what happened to a star that died in a famous supernova explosion not far from home. Though astronomers have known about neutron stars for ...

Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km. They are mostly composed of neutrons ...