The youngest neutron star detected so far turned 37 years old last week. To celebrate, James Webb Space Telescope has finally found the most direct evidence of it, hiding among the remains of the ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...

A jet of radiation from two colliding neutron stars appears to be travelling at seven times the speed of light, according to measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

Two glitches in the rotation of a highly magnetic neutron star or 'magnetar' could help researchers get to the bottom of how these compact dead stars blast out fast radio bursts.

Astronomers have a found an innovative way to observe neutron stars after they crash but before they become black holes.

Neutron Cross-section Standards Neutron cross section standards are important in the measurement and evaluation of all other neutron reaction cross sections. Not many cross sections can be defined as ...

When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for weeks in 1987 ...

Neutron stars are one of the strangest objects in the universe—so strange that scientist can only guess what’s going on inside them. A new study from an international team of scientists ...

NASA artist’s conception illustrates the aftermath of a "kilonova," a powerful event that happens when two neutron stars merge. These events could decimate life on Earth if we were too close to one.

Neutron stars, which are formed when a supermassive star collapses, are incredibly compact and dense - physicists describe them as akin to the mass of the sun being compressed into a sphere the ...