Ten neutron stars found lurking in the Milky Way include cosmic black widows killing stars with "webs" of viscous plasma and ...

One of the double neutron stars observed in gravitational wave signals, called GW190425, is far more massive than the ones in typical galactic populations observed in radio astronomy, ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This finding is actually quite important because there are only around 2,500 known radio pulsars to date, and only 14 of those 2,500 are known to be double neutron star binaries. That makes this the ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

So she set out to see if there was another way to learn about the brief, wondrous life of a hyper-massive neutron star. When two neutron stars merge, the event is high octane enough to produce ...

The neutron star, known as PSR J0952-0607, was discovered in 2017 about 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sextans. Recent measurements show the star weighs 2.35 times as much as ...

The neutron star featured in this latest paper is a pulsar, PSR J0952-0607—or J0952 for short—located in the constellation Sextans between 3,200 and 5,700 light-years away from Earth.

A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per second—making it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy—has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its ...

Two neutron stars are part of an incredibly rare double neutron-star binary, for example.Astronomers have discovered around 3,600 pulsars in the Milky Way, but only 20 of them have been double ...