Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

The life cycles of stars are fascinating, and sometimes the line between stars and planets isn’t as clear as it seems. Astronomers have found that under certain conditions, stars can fade, shrink, or ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist’s concept. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines (shown in ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena like the collisions of black holes and neutron stars thanks to LIGO ... It is hard enough to imagine ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. As it cannot be detected and studied using ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...