Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

Astronomers from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and elsewhere have observed an X-ray binary ... of a normal star or ...

Neutron stars represent one of the final evolutionary stages of a massive star, forming when stars with at least eight times ...

Astronomers have discovered a "dead star" neutron star is spinning at an incredible 716 times a second, making it the joint fastest-spinning cosmic body ever seen. Not only this, but the neutron ...

ULTRACAM has been used to study white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, pulsars, black-hole/neutron-star X-ray binaries, gamma-ray bursts, cataclysmic variables, eclipsing binary stars, extrasolar ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely heavy star is releasing bursts of material as powerful as repeating atomic ...

It is a small but extremely massive and fast-spinning object—a neutron star, part of a so-called X-ray binary star system ... that the companion star is a white dwarf about the same size as ...

4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars ... that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Astronomers discover a neutron star spinning 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest stars ever recorded.