A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with the strongest magnetic fields in the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have figured out where a stream of long radio bursts is coming from, and its origin is unprecedented. Rather than ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

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 ...

Professor Claudia Ratti explains about quarks and gluons, including the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma, plus Quantum ...

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...

In some cases, the core of these big stars collapses. “It’s basically a giant atomic bomb that’s called a supernova.” The dense core that is left over is known as a neutron star. These are much denser ...