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 ...

The birth, mid-life and deaths of double neutron stars Radio and gravitational-wave astronomy enables scientists to study double neutron stars at different stages of their evolution.

The heaviest neutron star ever detected is shredding its companion while spinning around its axis over 700 times per second.

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

“Black widow” neutron star devoured its mate to become heaviest found yet This work may set an upper limit on just how large neutron stars can become.

An artist's impression of a double neutron star system. Image Credit: John Rowe Animations This finding is actually quite important because there are only around 2,500 known radio pulsars to date, and ...

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 ...

A reliable estimate of the double-neutron-star merger rate in the Galaxy is crucial in order to predict whether current gravity wave detectors will be successful in detecting such bursts.

While most neutron star-neutron star mergers result in a black hole, for a few rare moments, the neutron stars create one giant neutron star too fleeting to typically be detected. A new study ...

Astronomers have discovered around 3,600 pulsars in the Milky Way, but only 20 of them have been double neutron-star binaries. When these binaries form, one of the neutron stars pulls material ...