Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.

NASA says it best: "Neutron Stars Are Weird!" They are extraordinarily compact. Just a sugar cube-sized piece of this ...

Australian scientists have discovered a collapsed star called a neutron star that spins thousands of times slower than expected. The star, called ASKAP J1839-075, is one of a number of recent ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Simulations of neutron star cooling have established new constraints on light QCD axions, particles hypothesized to emerge from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism. These ...

Measuring the size of neutron stars and how they deform during mergers tells us their pressure and confirms that neutron stars are indeed the densest visible matter in the universe. In a recent ...

The team used advanced numerical simulations to model the magneto-thermal evolution of these stars, finding that a specific dynamo process within the proto-neutron star can generate these weaker ...

Neutron stars are one of the densest objects in the universe, second only to black holes. Using observations from the merger of binary star system GW170817, astronomers believe that the mass of ...