Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most ...

You can't have gold until a nucleus decays. The specifics of that process have been hard to pin down, but UT's nuclear ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

WASHINGTON — Ordinary computers like those folks use to send e-mail or surf the Internet are being credited with finding a previously unknown neutron star. Home office computers in Ames, Iowa, and ...

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 ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making has delivered its first glimpse of the hurricane of particles whirring inside subatomic particles called neutrons, laying the groundwork to solve a ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies about 235,000 ...

Improved neutron mirrors can increase the efficiency of material analysis in neutron sources such as the ESS, which is being built outside Lund, Sweden. The improved mirror has been developed by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable ...