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

For more than a decade astrophysicists have wondered why nature appears to show an odd restraint in the way it slays stars. In life, they range from pip-squeaks to behemoths. Small ones simply burn ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

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 ...

In a recent breakthrough, the XRISM mission has uncovered a puzzling cosmic phenomenon—a slow, dense wind emanating from the neutron star GX13+1. This unexpected discovery, detailed in a study ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Enter the high-resolution neutron spectrometer, the device that scientists believe will allow them to monitor conditions ...

Neutron’s architecture reflects hard-won lessons from Rocket Lab’s Electron small-lift vehicle, which has now completed over ...

Reaction Dynamics intends to launch its Aurora-8 rocket from the Canadian launch site. Bachar Elzein, the CEO of Reaction ...

A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change.