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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Let’s look at a white dwarf first. These stellar remnants are the remains of Sun-like stars and are made mostly of carbon and oxygen. A white dwarf’s outer shell is so hot that it will radiate visible ...

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 ...

Rocket Lab's new rocket is a gigantic leap in capability. Give SpaceX credit. Its project to develop an entirely reusable "Starship" rocket to transport satellites to orbit, astronauts to the moon, ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the ...