Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the universe. A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun, compressed into a region ...

(WYTV) – The universe is vast and our journey to understand it has just begun. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth. The latest estimates suggest there are around one ...

According to a new study, magnetars—a rare type of neutron star—may have forged some of the first heavy elements in the universe, based on evidence found buried in 20-year-old data.

But in common envelope evolution, “the companion star is so large that its outer layers engulf the neutron star as well,” Lorimer said. “This acts as a brake on the whole binary system.” ...

Scientists found in 2020 that gravitational waves detected a year earlier came from two neutron stars — dense leftovers of exploded stars — paired up in a system 3.4 times the mass of the sun.

The erupting magnetar observed by IXPE is known as 1E 1841-045, a neutron star located around 28,000 light-years from Earth in the supernova wreckage known as Kes 73, which shocked astronomers ...

That's because astronomers have discovered that this magnetar, which is a special type of highly magnetic neutron star, wasn't actually born in a nearby supernova as previously theorized ...

"The neutron star's crust will crack open just like the ground in an earthquake," Most says. "The black hole's gravity first shears the surface, causing quakes in the star and the opening of rifts." ...