Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

Space is an endless void of mysterious unknowns, and one particularly alluring enigma concerns the point at which neutron stars take on too much mass and collapse into black holes as a result.

A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a light black hole resolves one of the most challenging puzzles to ...

A: The quick answer to your question is yes, they can gain matter. However, only a small fraction of neutron stars can gain mass — those in binary systems, where mass is transferred from the companion ...

Scientists have discovered what could be the largest neutron star on record, according to new research. Neutron stars are among the strangest objects in the sky. They’re wildly compact: just a few ...

AUSTIN, Texas Neutron stars and black holes aren t all they ve been thought to be. In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form ...

What's in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner working of neutron stars remain elusive, partly because their basic properties, such as ...

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in ...

Massive merger: illustration of gravitational waves from a neutron-star merger Data from the recent observation of gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star have been used to place ...

Whenever a star is born in the Universe, its eventual fate is almost completely determined from the moment nuclear fusion ignites in its core. Dependent only on a few factors — mass, the presence of ...