A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around the universe. Scientists recently announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron stars smashing into each other.

The neutron plays a fundamental role in the universe and its discovery was at the heart of developments in nuclear physics in the first half of the 20th Century. Prof Val Gibson tells Melvyn Bragg ...

Neutron stars are exotic and extremely compact stellar remnants. Only black holes have a higher mass density. While black holes colliding with each other can only be detected by the emitted ...

"The detection of this signal has the potential to reveal what neutron stars are made of." Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves ...