Intense gravitational lensing means you’d be able to see much more of a neutron star standing on its surface than you would ...

Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most ...

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...

By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars ...

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests ...

Creating a neutron star Before you can get this ideal cosmic laboratory, a star first has to die. The end of a star’s life depends largely on its mass. Unremarkable stars like the Sun go out with a ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

There is a mysterious glow coming from the middle of our galaxy – and scientists say it could help solve one of the ...