The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...

Magnetars are a class of neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. These incredibly dense objects are central in the landscape of extreme phenomena such as hypernovae ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive ion beam, shedding light ...

Astronomers detected constant stream of radio pulses emitted from across the galaxy. Team now finds the pulses are from a ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

"We hope this motivates radio astronomers to localize new classes of sources that might arise from neutron star or magnetar binaries." The radio pulses — seven of them — were first ...

It remains to be explained why some neutron stars, called magnetars, are born with very high surface field strengths of order 10 15 Gauss. 3D simulations will hopefully contribute to explaining ...

This significant improvement in the comprehension of these stars was published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Magnetars are neutron stars that possess the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...

When these stars dance, they make their own music. Astronomers have tracked down the source of a mysterious radio signal from ...

"There are several highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars, that are known to exhibit radio pulses with a period of a few seconds," team member and Northwestern astrophysicist Charles ...