A: The quick answer to your question is yes, they can gain matter. However, only a small fraction of neutron stars can gain mass — those in binary systems, where mass is transferred from the companion ...

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

What's in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner working of neutron stars remain elusive, partly because their basic properties, such as ...

New insights into the properties of neutron stars have come from two independent analyses of gravitational waves from the GW170817 neutron-star merger. The work was done by teams led by Farrukh ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Unlike most of the others, however, this one might be the ...

Massive merger: illustration of gravitational waves from a neutron-star merger Data from the recent observation of gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star have been used to place ...

For just the second time, scientists have used gravitational waves (ripples in space-time) to detect the merger of two colliding neutron stars. The neutron stars — which each cram roughly the mass of ...

Using NASA’s Swift and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellites, astronomers have discovered one of the most bizarre planet-mass objects ever found. The object’s minimum mass is only about 7 ...

A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a light black hole resolves one of the most challenging puzzles to ...

Using a pioneering method, researchers have found a neutron star of about 2.3 Solar masses -- one of the most massive ever detected. Neutron stars (often called pulsars) are stellar remnants that have ...

Groundbreaking results show that neutron stars of different masses may have the same size — upending astrophysical models. In the known universe, there is nothing quite like a neutron star. Born from ...