The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...

On August 17th, both the light and the gravitational wave signals from inspiraling-and-merging neutron stars reached Earth, where both were detected, for the first time, by humans. The inspiral phase ...

An international team of astronomers has concluded that when it comes to theories about colliding neutron stars, Einstein got it right. Everybody else, not so much. A neutron star is what's left when ...

For more than a decade astrophysicists have wondered why nature appears to show an odd restraint in the way it slays stars. In life, they range from pip-squeaks to behemoths. Small ones simply burn ...

Astronomers witnessed for the first time ever a rare collision of two dense neutron stars. The discovery began with an instrument called LIGO, which won this year’s Nobel Prize for its discovery of ...

Astronomers have measured what they believe is the most massive neutron star ever seen, and it's "almost too massive to exist." Neutron stars are what remains when a star goes supernova and dies, ...

Commercial spaceflight could be on the cusp of a boom on the eastern shores of Virginia as a company known as Rocket Lab is ramping up its operations in the state. Amid the California-based Rocket Lab ...