On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

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

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around ... With no outward pressure from fusion to counterbalance gravity's inward pull, the star condenses and collapses in upon itself.

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

Observations of the merger of binary neutron stars are vital to the growing field ... It provides unique opportunities for ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.