See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

Citizen astronomers see moment star explodes by playing ‘spot the difference’ - A cataclysmic variable star was found as part ...

Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the universe. A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun, compressed into a region ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Neutron stars as magnifying glasses. The idea of the axion as a dark matter particle is nice, but in physics an idea is only truly nice if it has observable consequences.

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

Rocket Lab achieved a new milestone on June 28, 2025, with the successful launch of a confidential satellite aboard its Electron rocket.

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a ...