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

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

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...

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 ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce presents a major challenge for traditional data-analysis methods. These ...