"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Collision of Two Neutron Stars Billions of Years Ago Made Enough Gold and Uranium To Fill Earth's Oceans, Says Study Billions of years ago, deep down in the cosmos, two neutron stars began their ...

Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around ... own sun before exploding in catastrophic supernovae. After one such explosion blows a star's outer layers into space, the core remains ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

This stellar explosion, from a star 20 times the size ... Astronomers have detected a neutron star in the binary system 4U 1820-30 spinning at 716 times per second, breaking records for speed.

Neutron stars are the dense remnants of massive stars, more than eight times as massive as our sun, born at the end of their lives in a brilliant supernova explosion. These incredibly dense ...