Both neutron stars and certain moons such as Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus have thin crusts over deep oceans, while Mercury has a thin crust over a large metallic core.

Neutron star quakes, triggered by shifts in the star’s crust or tidal interactions in binary systems, produce vibrations that travel through the star's interior. Related Stories ・Unstable ...

some of the material from the neutron star crust is going to get ejected out at very high speed and this material has, by definition, has a lot of neutrons." "So it's kind of an ideal place for ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. An international team of astronomers led by ...

Countless smash-ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust. "The rate of these neutron star mergers in our ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...