Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...

Astronomers from the University of Sydney found a brand new type of neutron star that moves as slowly as a sloth!

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.

Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars after a supernova explosion, have often been the focus of studies aimed at ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind ...

Two NASA astronauts are currently hard at work in space, patching up an instrument called NICER (Neutron star Interior ...

Those events are akin to throwing a pebble in a pond, but there are vibrations all the time. Some of them might end up making ...

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Australian researchers have discovered a dead star that takes hours rather than milliseconds to spin, challenging scientists' understanding of how these stars form.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...