A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Astronomers have spent more than a decade watching a compact stellar remnant called P13 slip into near silence and then surge ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

A rapidly spinning neutron star that sweeps beams of radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse has been discovered by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Remote Sensing Division intern ...

"In these environments of neutron stars, the magnetic fields are really at the limits of what the universe can produce." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The collision of two neutron stars around 130 million light-years from Earth, and the unique physics this merger created, may have shed new light on dark matter. Axions have never been directly ...

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly ...

A collaboration between quantum physicists and astrophysicists has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding neutron star glitches. They were able to numerically simulate this enigmatic ...

An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to explain fast radio bursts. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...