In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

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 ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Professor Claudia Ratti explains about quarks and gluons, including the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma, plus Quantum ...

For the first time, we have visual confirmation of a white dwarf/red dwarf system responsible for puzzling intermittent radio ...

The 20-kilowatt SLOWPOKE-2 research reactor at the International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS) at The ...

Black Holes, explained As astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson once described the process: “While you're getting stretched, you're getting squeezed—extruded through the fabric of space like ...

Neutron activation analysis is a method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of elements based on the measurement of characteristic radiation from radionuclides formed by irradiating ...