A Mississippi State physicist has produced a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during explosive bursts on neutron stars. These bursts forge heavier elements—the ...

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists discover the first neutron star–black hole merger with an eccentric orbit, reshaping theories of how these systems form ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Physicists decode how neutron stars deform under tidal forces, offering insights into their extreme interiors. (CREDIT: ...

The study shows how some stars churn out heavy elements with no roadblock.

Neutron stars escape collapse into a black hole thanks to degeneracy pressure produced by their neutrons, which is able to fight the crushing force of gravity. What exactly lies at the heart of a ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

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Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned physicists. Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars that have exploded as ...