Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most mysterious objects in our Universe. Their extreme density and internal ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei—the center part of atoms, which make up all matter—were more stable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have discovered 21 "one in a million" binary systems in which sun-like stars orbit a hidden "dead star," an extreme ...

Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own sun is a loner, many stars like our sun orbit similar stars, while a host of other exotic pairings between stars and cosmic orbs pepper the ...

ORNL hosts two of the world’s most powerful sources of neutrons for research, the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). ORNL is the U.S. epicenter for one of the ...

Neutron stars – the dense stellar corpses left after stars explode – may merge more often than thought, suggests the discovery of a new system. Crucially, this raises the odds that astronomers may ...

An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led by the University of East Anglia. They have ...

Neutron stars were once thought to be the densest objects nature could create—but some physicists believe there’s a step beyond. Quark stars are hypothetical objects so dense that neutrons themselves ...

Interactive version: Twenty years of discovery science at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source On a clear April day in 2006, a team of engineers and scientists erupted with excitement from the control ...