Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

Incorporated into every aspect of everyday life, the neutron is a fundamental particle of nature. Now, a research collaboration led by Los Alamos National Laboratory has improved the precision of free ...

We don't really know, but probably some truly bizarre physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neutron stars are some of the ...

Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967. As a massive star dies, expelling most of its guts across the universe in a supernova explosion, its iron heart, ...

Today, the nature of certain cosmic phenomena (like stars are supernova blasts) is well understood by those who don’t specialize in physics. That’s because these phenomena are written about ...