Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars after a supernova, are among the densest and most fascinating objects in the universe. Recent discoveries have indicated that some neutron stars are ...

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 ...

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Where do gold, platinum and uranium come from? This question has fascinated astrophysicists and nuclear physicists for decades. A research team from Technische Universität Darmstadt has now taken an ...

A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a light black hole resolves one of the most challenging puzzles to ...

Neutron stars rank among the densest objects known to science, and the numbers involved are difficult to grasp with everyday ...

An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

How fast can a neutron star spin? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers have identified one of ...

Neutrinos play a key role in our current models of supernovae, and right now, those models don’t take into account one of neutrinos’ most striking features: their ability to change identity. We’ve ...

An international research team has reported the first experimental investigation of a nuclear physics reaction essential for understanding how the element strontium is produced in stars—specifically ...

An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. Led by scientists from Newcastle University, University of Leeds and France, the ...