The bold question-askers at What If warn how a black neutron star could destabilize Earth’s orbit and wreak havoc.

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions ...

New research suggests that colliding neutron stars can briefly "trap" ghostly particles called neutrinos, which could reveal new secrets about some of space's most extreme events.

Scientists said that the inside of neutron stars might contain a form of ultradense matter not found elsewhere in the cosmos.

Matching the neutron stars' cooling rates to their equation of state could help scientists figure out a quantum theory of gravity.

Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce ...

Space & Spaceflight Neutron Stars Spew Jets That Travel at Relativistic Speeds, Scientists Say These fast-moving outbursts of material are slightly different from those launched by black holes.

The youngest neutron star detected so far turned 37 years old last week. To celebrate, James Webb Space Telescope has finally found the most direct evidence of it, hiding among the remains of the ...

Image shows evidence for a neutron star following a stellar explosion called Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring our Milky Way, in this handout combination of ...