A neutron star in a dense stellar cluster completes 716 full rotations every single second, making it the fastest-spinning ...

Neutron stars, the collapsed remnants of massive stars, hold the densest matter in the universe. These cosmic objects are ...

Imagine stars so exotic that when they merge they produce gold, and as well emit signals so precise that they may one ...

On Oct. 16, astronomers announced that they had viewed a cosmic event, the collision of two neutron stars, through both light and gravitational waves. Over a thousand scientists working with LIGO, the ...

Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.