NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s ...

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large ...

Neutron stars are massive gravitational monsters, and orbiting one wouldn't end up well for our planet. But what if we took ...

An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to explain fast radio bursts! Scientists have discovered that mysterious ...

Radio pulsars —rapidly spinning neutron stars —are well-studied objects. They typically spin many times a second to a few ...

Almost 300 binary mergers have been detected so far, indicated by their passing gravitational waves. These measurements from the world's gravitational wave observatories put constraints on the ...

It's just that the chance of that is small." Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just 10 seconds. That is ...