The crusts of neutron stars may be 10 billion times stronger than steel, new research shows.

NASA's IXPE space telescope observed a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field in X-rays for the first time, finding polarization and a likely solid crust.

Scientists have measured the depth of a neutron star’s crust for the first time: nearly one-twelfth of the star’s diameter, or approximately a mile thick. Here, the star’s intense magnetic ...

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.

Neutrinos give neutron stars a chill Improved model for neutron star crust solves one problem while creating another.

Scientists know nuclear pasta exists from observations of neutron stars—the pressure from the gravity is too high for anything other than a solid crust to form.

But the chance to peel back the crust and look at the exotic conditions inside a neutron star is probably going to be tempting enough to ensure that it'll happen. Nature, 2018.

The crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel, according to new simulations. That makes the surface of these ultra-dense stars tough enough to support long-lived bulges that ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

Neutron stars are the perfect cosmic laboratory for the scientists who study them, thanks to their observability, extreme gravity, and strong magnetic fields. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada.

Neutron stars are dead relics that have collapsed into very small, dense spheres with tough crusts. Forces welling from within can crack the crusts during events called star quakes, similar to ...