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 ...

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 ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, have a typical radius of 10 km—just slightly more than the altitude ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

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

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 ...