Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely unknown. Nuclear theorists have explored mountain building mechanisms active ...

The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to ...

Discover how scientists traced a mysterious radio signal from an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light-years away, ...

A mysterious radio blast from space detected in 2022 originated in the magnetic field of an ultra-dense neutron star 200 ...

Researchers at Duke University have uncovered the molecular inner workings of a material that could underpin next-generation ...

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are energized by magnetic turbulence, not shock acceleration, according to new research.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...

July 16, 2024 — Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded ...

Interactions between dark matter and dark photons during a "missing chapter" cosmic history could shed light on one of the ...

This spacewalk will be Williams’s eighth and Hague’s fourth. For easy identification, Hague will wear a spacesuit with red ...

An international team of scientists has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs)—enigmatic, ...