Neutron stars, the extremely dense remains of massive stars that exploded at the end of their lives, are widely studied ...

Astronomers suggest that a 10-minute X-ray burst may result from neutron star collisions, potentially creating elements like ...

Astronomers have caught a white dwarf in a rare stage of its evolution as it orbits a "cosmic lighthouse" in the form of a ...

Soft X-rays kept flowing for about 560 seconds, or 9.3 minutes, after a gamma-ray burst that itself lasted well under a ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...

A new simulation created using a NASA supercomputer has shown how things get messy for merging neutron stars even before they slam together; their magnetospheres, the most powerful magnetic fields in ...

Einstein Probe avoids that delay by monitoring a wide area of the sky at soft X-ray energies. On July 4, 2025, the ...

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 ...

Neutron stars explained through the final moments of massive stars reveal some of the most extreme objects in the universe. When stars between eight and twenty times the Sun's mass exhaust their ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some neutron stars may contain a "special type of matter," according to ...

The dense remains of massive stars generate powerful jets of gas and dust that move hundreds of millions of miles per hour, according to research published last week in Nature. When some massive stars ...

Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that ...