Physicists have proposed that axions, theoretical particles that could explain dark matter, may accumulate in dense clouds ...

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 team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known ...

Neutron stars aren't dark matter--we figured that out a while ago. But new research is telling us that they may be dark ...

What if a tablespoonful of a neutron star was brought to Earth? Caroline Adams Before we can know what happens when our ...

Oct. 18, 2024 — Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark ...

EIRSAT-1, the student-built satellite from University College Dublin (UCD) that was launched into space last December, ...

If possible, this could help scientists determine if the massive dying star that launches the detected supernova leaves a ...

The collapsed remnants are known as neutron stars. There are thousands of them in our galaxy, and they're the densest observable objects in the universe. Astrophysicist Daniel Reardon says a ...

On average, a neutron star has 1.4 times the density of the Sun. However, the Sun is more than a million kilometres wide. The typical neutron star, on the other hand, is smaller than the average city.

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 ...