Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

The logic behind the researchers’ approach was straightforward. If scalar particles interact strongly with nucleons, neutron ...

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

Quantum computing and neutron star physics are converging on the same hard problem: how to describe matter when gravity and ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

There is a way out of this trap, but it requires a fundamental shift in how NASA thinks about astrophysics procurement. It is time to stop buying hardware and start subscribing to outcomes. It is time ...

NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...