A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

A research team led by Prof. Yong Gaochan from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

The erupting magnetar observed by IXPE is known as 1E 1841-045, a neutron star located around 28,000 light-years from Earth ...

Neutron stars are incredibly difficult to decipher. Experts can’t recreate their extreme conditions in a lab, and the closest ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

MIT researchers used the Frontier supercomputer to simulate the density and pressure inside neutron stars, vital for ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...

An ancient star with a strange elemental fingerprint may be the missing clue to one of astronomy’s greatest unsolved ...