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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The study, published in Physical Review C, could reshape how scientists understand neutron stars, nuclear interactions, and even the universe itself. At the core of neutron stars, nuclear matter ...

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 ...

After the supernova the remaining core of the star may collapse further. Some become neutron stars while very massive ones become black holes. An exploding supernova throws hot gas into space.