Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role ...

Neutron stars are incredibly difficult to decipher. Experts can’t recreate their extreme conditions in a lab, and the closest ...

MIT researchers used the Frontier supercomputer to simulate the density and pressure inside neutron stars, vital for ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used Frontier to chart the isospin density of a neutron ...

The erupting magnetar observed by IXPE is known as 1E 1841-045, a neutron star located around 28,000 light-years from Earth ...

Longest and most comprehensive computer simulation of the merger of two neutron stars to date reveals explosive details of ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive stellar partner it has stripped to its core.