Neutron stars. They are so strange that we can barely wrap our heads around the idea of their existence. In fact, we still don't really know most things ...

Simulations of supernova explosions of massive stars paired with neutron stars can explain puzzling results from gravitational wave observatories.

Neutron-star mergers could create hypermassive neutron stars that are the fastest spinning stars in the universe.

A neutron star is one of the final stages of a star's life. After a star collapses, goes supernova and explodes, a neutron star is the small leftover remnant in its place -- and it's super weird.

Mind-blowing science explained: Neutron stars “are basically atoms as big as mountains” These dense stars are some of the "most extreme" celestial bodies in the universe ...

Only a super-strong crust could have exploded so forcefully, he explained. To find out how strong the crusts of neutron stars really are, Horowitz and a colleague created a computer simulation of ...

A new study says the cataclysmic event of two neutron stars colliding may also have solved the mystery of why there are so many heavy elements in the universe.

Neutron stars are incredibly compact objects that are formed in supernovae explosions. Some of these neutron stars have a companion, and for a tiny fraction, the companion is another neutron star.

Strontium turning up in the aftermath of this first detected neutron-star collision could help confirm an alternative theory, that these collisions between much smaller, ultradense objects ...

A research team has found that some of the universe’s loneliest supernovae are likely created by the collisions of white dwarf stars into neutron stars.

If found, the theorized 'mirror neutron' -- a dark-matter twin to the neutron -- could explain a discrepancy between answers from two types of neutron lifetime experiments and provide the first ...

"This neutron-star merger is unlike anything we've seen before," said Melania Nynka, a McGill postdoctoral researcher and study co-author, in the statement.