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

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe's rarest elements: a giant flare ...

That's a lot of pasta. A neutron star can be the size of New York City with a mass greater than that of the sun. A theoretical quark star would be even denser. | Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

That’s where magnetars come in. These ultra-magnetic neutron stars can unleash giant flares that throw material from their ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they ...