Neutron stars are what remain after giant stars collapse, leaving behind a body so dense that its core crushes protons and neutrons into a tightly packed soup. These objects cool very slowly over ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

A spoonful of this star's matter can weigh a billion tons. By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone ...

Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...

For decades, scientists believed that gold and other heavy elements were born from the cataclysmic collision of neutron stars. These rare events, observed across the cosmos, seemed to provide the ...