positionally coincident with HD 49798. This periodicity suggested the rotation of either a neutron star or a white dwarf. Now, a new analysis of the available data conducted by Sandro Mereghetti ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. "Understanding the birth masses of neutron ...

The team’s research, published today in the journal Nature, outlines an algorithm to study neutron star mergers’ gravitational wave emissions. Once identified, astronomers around the world ...

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 ...

That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and rapidly rotating neutron stars, or "pulsars." Fascinatingly, pulsars act like ...

"This insight gives a new tool for understanding the most cataclysmic events of the universe: two neutron stars merging to form a black hole, which is the process responsible for the creation of ...