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

Astronomers have witnessed the titanic collision between two neutron stars that resulted in the birth of the smallest black ...

New research suggests that scientists could now come closer to a conclusion about the mechanism responsible for the speeds of the steady jets launched from a neutron star, reported Space.com.

Moreover, even those quarks (the up and down that comprise a neutron) get compressed into an even rarer type of quark called a strange quark—hence the name strange star. Technically, the ...

The neutron plays a fundamental role in the universe and its discovery was at the heart of developments in nuclear physics in the first half of the 20th Century. Prof Val Gibson tells Melvyn Bragg ...