A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Most external layers of massive stars are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster. Researchers show that this process plays a very important ...

Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth. A neutron star's almost incomprehensible density causes protons and electrons to combine into neutrons ...

(The nearest neutron star to Earth is 400 light-years away ... of isospin is very similar to that of ordinary particle spin in quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.