Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

This "pulsing" appearance gives some neutron stars the name pulsars. After spinning for several million years pulsars are drained of their energy and become normal neutron stars. Few of the known ...

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

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...

of all rotation-powered pulsars? Youth is presumably also relevant. Although we lack a self-consistent understanding for the thermo-magnetic evolution of strongly magnetized neutron stars 9 ...

The work of the research group focuses particularly on searching for and investigating fast-rotating neutron stars which are visible as radio pulsars. Their observation makes it possible to test the ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. "Understanding the birth masses of neutron ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly magnetized rapidly rotating, light-emitting neutron star) and a so-called ...

Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km.

Many more pulsars have been found since the first. They are believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars with intense electromagnetic fields, which emit radio waves from north and south poles.

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.