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Neutron stars are formed when giant stars run out of fuel. Their internal pressure is no longer sufficient to fight gravity, and the resulting collapse and supernova explosion leaves a tiny core, with ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A rupture in the crust of a highly magnetized neutron star, shown here in an artist’s rendering, ...

Primordial nucleosynthesis during the early universe generated hydrogen, helium, and minor lithium-7 before the cosmos cooled, halting further fusion. Stellar interiors synthesize elements up to iron ...

Neutron stars are the densest observable objects in the universe. A new Finnish Centre of Excellence investigates them with a combination of ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

Quantum computing and neutron star physics are converging on the same hard problem: how to describe matter when gravity and ...

Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...