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 ...

A neutron star is a highly dense remnant of a massive star, composed primarily of neutrons due to extreme gravitational pressure. A tablespoon of neutron star material would possess a mass exceeding 1 ...

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 ...

Fourth launch site constructed in under two years will be exclusively used for Rocket Lab’s upcoming medium-lift composite ...

Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the ...

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 ...

What Happened? Shares of aerospace and defense company Rocket Lab (NASDAQ:RKLB) jumped 9.4% in the afternoon session after it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. On August 17th, both the light and the gravitational wave signals from ...

When a massive star dies in a supernova, the explosion is only the beginning of the end. Most of the stellar matter is thrown far and wide, but the star’s iron-filled heart remains behind. This core ...

The Russian attack on the laboratory of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, where the enriched uranium device Neutron Source is located, does not pose a threat of a large-scale nuclear ...