A spoonful of neutron star material would be incredibly dense and have bizarre effects on Earth. Trump Signs Executive Order ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

The surprising object, dubbed SGR 0501+4516, is a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field. Neutron stars are the remains of dead stars that have collapsed into shriveled husks the ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

Astronomers have tracked this bizarre “zombie star” moving at more than 110,000 mph, far faster than they expected. This rare stellar remnant is known as a magnetar. It's a type of neutron ...

A pulsar is a neutron star, a super-dense stellar remnant that produces beams of radio waves and an energetic “wind” of particles. The pulsar and its wind move with supersonic speed through ...

However, their findings at the time were disputed, with a section of scientists claiming the body was instead a neutron star. However, the team continued studying the object and has now found more ...

The surprising object, dubbed SGR 0501+4516, is a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field.Neutron stars are the remains of dead stars that have collapsed into shriveled husks the ...

But other research groups contested the findings, arguing that the object might not be a black hole but rather a neutron star - an object formed by a collapsing star that wasn't large enough to ...