Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

In terms of human lifespans, this is like having your prognosis of 50 years being cut down to less than a trillionth of a ...

If this supernova is lopsided, the neutron star can be booted unceremoniously across the galaxy at high speeds, something ...

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

That's less than scientists previously thought, as it was predicted they would last for another 10 to the power of 1,100 ...

The gold you wear today may have landed on Earth billions of years ago... but that is far from the beginning of the metal’s ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

But the gravity of the neutron star keeps everything bound together. Down to a depth of roughly a kilometer, atomic nuclei can hold hundreds of neutrons at a time. But even that has a limit.