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

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

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 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.

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

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 ...

This is an artist's impression of pulsar PSR J1930-1852 shown in orbit around a companion neutron star. Discovered by a team of high school students, this pulsar has the widest orbit ever observed ...

Most binary systems include two comparably sized neutron stars locked in a fiercely tight orbit. But PSR J1913+1102 contains a pair of mismatched neutron stars — one of them a pulsar — with ...

The merger1 of close binary systems containing two neutron stars should produce a burst of gravitational waves, as predicted by the theory of general relativity2. A reliable estimate of the double ...

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 ...