Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

Understanding these cosmic collisions not only sheds light on the origins of elements but also reveals the history that ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

Only about 1,000 pulsars are known to exist, though there may be hundreds of millions of old neutron stars in the galaxy. The staggering pressures that exist at the core of neutron stars may be ...

Neutron stars are very small and dense stars ... although the composition of the innermost core is still unknown. The NICER mission will probe these stars to reveal the nature of matter under ...

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

An international team, including UNIGE, has reproduced for the first time the formation and evolution of a magnetar.

New approach could aid “multimessenger” astronomy by quickly locating sources of gravitational waves emitted during these ...

"We zeroed in on five of these where we expected the neutron star mass to be particularly low because of the core structure of the progenitor, specifically the mass of the iron and silicon core.

Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts We now know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such pulses Date: March 12, 2025 Source: University of Sydney Summary ...