Last Updated: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 14:32
Scientists are trying to find what exactly powers neutron stars` x-ray superbursts.
Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 15:59
Scientists were pretty sure until now that they knew how the surface of a neutron star - a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core collapses into itself - can heat itself up.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 09:46
Unlike elements like carbon or iron, gold cannot be created within a star instead it can only be formed by a cataclysmic event.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013, 21:14
A study led by the University of Alicante has detected what may be the first observational evidence of existence of a new exotic phase of matter in the inner crust of neutron stars (pulsars).
Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2013, 11:26
A major campaign using NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other satellites has suggested that exotic neutron stars, magnetars may be more diverse-and common-than previously thought.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 09:32
Pulsars are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe.
Last Updated: Friday, October 15, 2010, 13:15
Scientists have discovered dramatic flares and bursts of energy emanating from a rotating pulsar.
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