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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - NASA, the United States space agency, has revealed the discovery of a massive diamond-like object in ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

compressed into a ball the size of a city, with a radius of just 10 km. We can usually only weigh a neutron star (measure how ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers is a top priority for astronomers. These rare collisions between dense ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Simulations indicate that the low-mass star in the J0453+1559 binary system could be a neutron star rather than a white dwarf. The star's mass, 1.174 M ⊙, is ...