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

Substituting can be a tricky art, especially when stars are involved. When massive stars explode, they can collapse into extremely dense — and mysterious — objects known as neutron stars. But neutron ...

Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most mysterious objects in our Universe. Their extreme density and internal ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, ...

University of Leicester scientists involved in international discovery of neutron star “anti-glitch” using NASA’s Swift satellite. University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to an ...

How can we understand environments that can't be replicated on Earth? That's a challenge astrophysicists face all the time. In some cases, it's largely a matter of figuring out how well-understood ...

Manisha Caleb acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694745), an Australian ...