An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

Neutron stars pack an extremely strong gravitational pull, much greater than Earth's. This gravitational strength is particularly impressive because of the stars' small size. When they are formed ...

A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island ...

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 ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

Caption Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km. They are mostly composed ...

The dense core that is left over is known as a neutron star. These are much denser versions of white dwarfs, but they are actually smaller, about the size of Manhattan. Our sun is too small to go ...

"We realized that, if light enough, the QCD axion could alter the size of a neutron star's envelope, an outer layer that regulates its cooling." The primary objective of the recent work by Gómez ...

Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of researchers ...

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

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 ...